Re: [MacPerl] Perl book..

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 13.41 1998.03.18, nghai wrote:
>Would it had been clearer and less prone to mistakes to do:
>
>  $position = index($input,"\s");

Whoops!  No.  index() does not take a regex.  It takes a string.  This will
not work.

>which unfortunately would include lf, returns and tabs or:
>
>  $position = index($input,"\x20");
>
>which would explicitly specify a space.

Yes, that would work, too.

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