From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-03-30T18:55:36+09:00
Subject: Re: return number of spaces at the beginning of a line

2010/3/30 Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Jesse B. <jessebos@aol.com> wrote:

> Hi, a quick appraisal of the issues with previous solutions.

> Each of these count non-space whitespaces (ie " \t hello" would be 3 instead
> of 1 )
> s.index(%r{\S})
>
> str[/\A\s*/].length
>
> s =~ /(\s*)/
> $1.length

Oh, that's easily fixed: just replace \s with ' ' e.g. s[\A */].length
(still my favorite).  I thought general whitespace was sought after.

Kind regards

robert

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