in reply to Searching Strings for Characters
What exactly are you looking for in the string? All of the things you mentioned are fairly easy to detect:
String with all whitespace:
if ($string =~ /^\s+$/)
Or, to get rid of whitespace in the beginning of a string:
$string =~ s/\s+(\w.*)/$1/;
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