From: Ara.T.Howard@... Date: 2004-09-24T01:14:32+09:00 Subject: Re: whitespace string only On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, ts wrote: >>>>>> "A" == Ara T Howard writes: > > A> rep = %r/^\s*$/o > > /o is useless and you make something too complex for the regexp engine why useless? you mean because there's nothing to interplate here - that's true in this case... what do you mean be complex? seems very simple? -a -- =============================================================================== | EMAIL :: Ara [dot] T [dot] Howard [at] noaa [dot] gov | PHONE :: 303.497.6469 | A flower falls, even though we love it; | and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. | --Dogen ===============================================================================