Hi Dj,

To address the shebang issue ensure the first line of your script file
includes something like:
#!/usr/bin/perl

I don’t know the first thing about Perl, fortunately replacing multiple
spaces with single spaces is a simple search and replace with grep in
BBEdit:

Search for (omitting "):
"\s+"

Replace with (omitting "):
" "

I notice you are also capitalising the first letter of the line.
This can be done with a menu command: Text > Change Case > Capitalize Lines

Hope this helps
Cheers Ollie

On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 12:02, Dj <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to replace spaces between words so a sentence like this:
>
> "this     line has      really   messed      up        spacing"
>
> Looks like this:
>
> "This line has really messed up spacing"
>
> I'm only trying to change *space between words and not carriage returns
> and all that.* So far I've tried placing this in the scripts folder:
>
> perl -pe 's/ +/ /g'
>
> I get the *error message:* "This file doesn’t appear to contain a valid
> ‘shebang’ line (application error code: 13304)."
>
> Anyone know *what could be wrong, or have a better expression/way to
> achieve this? Thanks!*
>
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