[HRPM] Sorting ps list - source code for server and client

[chicks at chicks.net]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Matt Shivers wrote:

> I reviewed each line to figure out what it did, but I couldn't nail
> down the following line:
>      $copya =~ s/^\s+//;  $copyb =~ s/^\s+//;
> 
> This binds the pattern to the scalars, but what is it accomplishing?
> Would you shed some light on this?

It's removing initial white space from the data before comparing it.
Otherwise the comparison would see the white space, and it would evaluate
to 0.  This caused some bewildering results until I figured it out.

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