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Regular expression Help
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What is the meaning of this in regular expression $k =~ s/^\s*//;


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What i understand is that
it is for replacing the first word character is 's' then replace it with space.

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What i understand is that
it is for replacing the first word character is 's' then replace it with space.

Thanks
Namish
what is the meaning of 2nd right slash in this regular expression...
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The regexp removes any white-space characters from the beginning of $k.
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