On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:56:30AM -0800, Ahmed Moustafa Ibrahim Ahmed wrote:
> You don't you need the line beginning and line termination in
> s/(^|[^ ]) ([^ ]|$)/$1$2/g;
It depends on what is desired in the two edge cases of " foobar" and
"foobar ", and what version of Perl is being used. I was assuming they
should both become "foobar", thus the line beginning and ending assertions.
I was also assuming a version of Perl prior to 5.6.
Given a version of Perl 5.6 or greater, then the substitution could become:
s/(?<! ) (?! )//g;
> Would
> s/([^ ]) ([^ ])/$1$2/g
> be simpler?
If the edge cases mentioned above should remain unchanged, then yes.
Michael
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