On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Ian Hilt wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 at 12:05pm -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > I don't think so, because you want next to test for whitespace > > where it _doesn't_ end in \r, i.e. this condition is here > > because of the 'else' clause. IIRC. > > What I'm suggesting is this, > > if (/\s\r$/) { > bad_line("trailing whitespace", $_); > } else { > if (/\s$/) { > bad_line("trailing whitespace", $_); > } > } > > Why only test for \r when all you want to know is whether there is > whitespace before \r ? If there isn't whitespace and \r at the end > of a line, then only test for whitespace at the end of a line. Unfortunately \r matches \s (is whitespace), so if line ends with CR LF ("\r\n") it wouldn't match first regexp, so it would go to 'else' clause, where it would match /\s$/ and it shouldn't. -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html