Re: Split using special charater data type scalar

[jwkrahn]

    $text =~ s/[\s|\n]*//g;

If we expand the \s (whitespace) character class we get:

    $text =~ s/[ \t\n\r\f|\n]*//g;

So why are you including the \n (newline) character twice?    And why are you including the | (vertical bar) character, which has nothing to do with whitespace?    And matching zero characters is inefficient.    What you probably want is:

    $text =~ s/\s+//g;

    $text =~ s/^[---]+//;

A character class ignores multiple identical characters so what you effectively have is:

    $text =~ s/^[-]+//;

Which could be written more simply without the character class:

    $text =~ s/^-+//;