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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.

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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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