Re^3: Regex is eating up whitespace

[dragonchild]

in reply to Re^2: Regex is eating up whitespace
in thread Regex is eating up whitespace

You should definitely read the Regex chapter in the Camel book. It's a tough slog - took me about 10 rereads to finally get it. But, it's extremely worth it. I'm no regex master by any measure, but understanding that chapter went a long way to getting me fluent in Perl.