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On Saturday 05 April 2003 06:23, Doug Maynard wrote:
> I would like to lose all the whitespace characters in about a bazillion
> anchor tags - like f'rinstance:
>
> <a href="zoning/b3424/b342402.htm#General Rules for Development Control:">
> and
> <a name="General Rules for Development Control">
>
> It's obviously pretty easy to find all the whitespaces in the documents,
> but I'm getting pretty confused just picking out those in the offending
> tags.

i'm no RE guru, so this most likely isn't the most efficient of 
implementations, but it seems to work so... ;-)

perl -pi.bak -e 'while (s/(<a\s*.+=\".*)\s(.*\"\s*>)/\1_\2/g) {} ' [files]

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