On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:30 +0100, Rob Coops wrote:
> What you want to be doing is this: $temp =~ s/\s+/ /g;
Actually to substitute multiple spaces with just one:
$temp =~ s/ +/ /g;
Or as some prefer:
$temp =~ s{ [ ]+ }{ }gx;
Or even:
$temp =~ s/\x20+/\x20/g;
The reason for not using the first is that sometimes whitespace is
ignored (like you normally do in Perl), making it harder to understand.
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