On Apr 17, 2014, at 3:38 PM, Britt Gray <britt.c.gray@gmail.com> wrote: > I have lost my mind and can’t figure out what the following line of code does. > > It is removing something from $adj. > > $adj =~ s/^ $//; If $adj is ' ' then it will become ''. ^ means "starts with" $ means "end with" HTH, j