$ perl -e ' use re Debug => "EXECUTE"; $c="       _\n"; $c =~ /\s*\n/; print "\n\n"; $c =~ /\s+\n/ '
Guessing start of match in sv for REx "\s*\n" against "       _%n"
Found floating substr "%n" at offset 8...
start_shift: 0 check_at: 8 s: 0 endpos: 9
Does not contradict STCLASS...
Guessed: match at offset 0
Matching REx "\s*\n" against "       _%n"
Matching stclass ANYOF{i}[\x09\x0a\x0c\x0d ][{non-utf8-latin1-all}{unicode_all}] against "       _%n" (9 bytes)
   0 <> <       _%n>         |  1:STAR(3)
                                  SPACE can match 7 times out of 2147483647...
                                  failed...
   1 < > <      _%n>         |  1:STAR(3)
                                  SPACE can match 6 times out of 2147483647...
                                  failed...
   2 <  > <     _%n>         |  1:STAR(3)
                                  SPACE can match 5 times out of 2147483647...
                                  failed...
   3 <   > <    _%n>         |  1:STAR(3)
                                  SPACE can match 4 times out of 2147483647...
                                  failed...
   4 <    > <   _%n>         |  1:STAR(3)
                                  SPACE can match 3 times out of 2147483647...
                                  failed...
   5 <     > <  _%n>         |  1:STAR(3)
                                  SPACE can match 2 times out of 2147483647...
                                  failed...
   6 <      > < _%n>         |  1:STAR(3)
                                  SPACE can match 1 times out of 2147483647...
                                  failed...
   8 <       _> <%n>         |  1:STAR(3)
                                  SPACE can match 1 times out of 2147483647...
   8 <       _> <%n>         |  3:  EXACT <\n>(5)
   9 <       _%n> <>         |  5:  END(0)
Match successful!


Guessing start of match in sv for REx "\s+\n" against "       _%n"
Found floating substr "%n" at offset 8...
start_shift: 1 check_at: 8 s: 0 endpos: 8
Does not contradict STCLASS...
Guessed: match at offset 0
Matching REx "\s+\n" against "       _%n"
Matching stclass SPACE against "       _" (8 bytes)
   0 <> <       _%n>         |  1:PLUS(3)
                                  SPACE can match 7 times out of 2147483647...
                                  failed...
Contradicts stclass... [regexec_flags]
Match failed