Re^2: \s matches newline in regex?

If there were repeated, contiguous newlines, that would only avoid replacing the final newline.

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $line = qq{HeHi\n\n\nHo};
 print qq{[$line]};
 ;;
 $line =~ s/Hi\s*(?=\n)//;
 print qq{[$line]};
"
[HeHi


Ho]
[He
Ho]
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Re^3: \s matches newline in regex? by stevieb (Canon) on Jul 22, 2015 at 23:38 UTC
Yes, I'm aware of that, but it would have been prudent for me to have pointed that out. Thanks AnomalousMonk. -stevieb	[reply]


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