Re: <reject> and whitespace

[email protected] ((Randal L. Schwartz))
Newsgroups perl.recdescent
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron J Mackey <[email protected]> writes:

>> Well, // is not ''.  I'd use that instead.  // means "match whatever
>> the most recent successful match matched".  This isn't split. :)

Aaron> Hmm, well then the documentation is quite confusing:

Aaron>              startcol: // { $thiscolumn }    # NEED THE // TO STEP PAST TOKEN SEP

I wonder if Damian is confused on this point, or if he special-cases
// to mean '' somewhere.

A source-code examination would help, but I'm running off to a meeting. :)
Just enough time for a hit-n-run answer.

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