How can I match a pipe character followed by whitespace and another pipe?

Question

I am trying to find all matches in a string that begins with | |.

I have tried: if ($line =~ m/^\\\\\\|\\s\\\\\\|/) which didn\'t work. <

Answer 1

You are escaping the pipe one time too many, effectively escaping the backslash instead.

print "YES!" if ($line =~ m/^\|\s\|/);