Hello, 

Thanks for the helpful pointers. I had at it for a few *hours* with regular 
expressions and in the search results it looked like there were some lines 
that shouldn't be in there. Seemed like I had it close to right, but I 
didn't want to delete anything accidentaly. So next (after banging head on 
keyboard) I tried to figure it out the Perl route. A week or two into any 
sort of programmatic thinking so everything is kinda starting to make 
sense. 

One cool thing I saw this week is that people are putting regular 
expressions in the ios app "shortcuts" to automate things. More incentive 
to learn them.. Again, appreciate the help! 


On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 5:32:33 PM UTC-8, Dj 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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