Re: Removing multiple spaces

[John W. Krahn]

Peter Rabbitson wrote:
$str =~ s/          / /i;
$str =~ s/         / /i;
$str =~ s/        / /i;
$str =~ s/       / /i;
$str =~ s/      / /i;
$str =~ s/     / /i;
$str =~ s/    / /i;
$str =~ s/   / /i;
$str =~ s/  / /i;
is the same as:
$str =~ s/\s{2,10}/ /;
Not quite.  The \s character class includes more than just the ' ' 
character.
John
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