On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Ian Hilt wrote: Hm, how about keeping the path to perl in the snippet, --8<-- #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw use strict; my $ws = "To: \nCc:"; $ws =~ /^To:\s*(.+)\s*\nCc:/ism; if ($1 eq ' ') { print "\$1 is equal to a space.\n"; } -->8-- -- 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