From: "Jesse B." <jessebos@...>
Date: 2010-03-30T19:41:53+09:00
Subject: Re: return number of spaces at the beginning of a line

This second post with the "spaces only" fix seems to meet all the needs 
of what I was looking for.

I love that this got 9 replies in the middle of the night.
thanks everyone for your help.

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 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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