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On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 10:00:13PM +0000, Christopher Lindsey wrote: [snip] (...) of course, if you're using $&, you don't care about efficiency anyway, so you might as well put your regexp in a while loop. But if you do care about speed, you'd go (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) There are some days when I shouldn't touch a keyboard. I read and reread his initial posting and could have sworn that it said "It *does* matter to me which one..." I think you just went in and edited the message. ;) I guess it's one of those (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) s/009/011/ oops :) --Todd (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Not likely. But they could track down the shareware/freeware authors and harass them. (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Ahh, but that *is* what he asked for. Fredrik said, "If two consecutive characters are <SPACE> and <RET>, for example, it doesn't matter to me which one is preserved and which one is chopped off." (...) My goodness. I suppose you could do it (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I hate replying to myself, but I realize that I pasted the wrong answer into my initial response now, and totally missed the boat on my response to David. Ooops. :) This should do it: $string =~ s/(\t\t+| +|\r\r+|\n\n+|\f\f+)...&,1,1)/eg; Yes, (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I haven't read "Cryptonomicon", so I don't know what type of book it is. One book I loved though, was "Jurassic Park". It's better than the movie, it's bigger, and has a different ending. --Tobias (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Um, well, I dunno if "GifBuilder" for Mac is a commercial program... But since I haven't done it myself, then I guess it's OK. BTW, how is Unisys going to track me down anyway? --Tobias (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Ahh, but what happens if you have a carriage return followed by a space? The second method eliminates the space and leaves the carriage return, which isn't what he asked for. He wanted a way to replace multiple instances of similar whitespace (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't think that's safe. Unisys' behavior on this point has been erratic. (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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Hello, one additionally point: IMHO is the use of the GIF algorithms in non-commercial programs for free. -- Greetings, Carsten Schmitz "Kevin Loch" <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:G35CE8.Jwx@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) First, if you want to trim any leading and trailing whitespace, this'll do it: $foo =~ s/^\s+//; $foo =~ s/\s+$//; Then, if you need to preserve the first whitespace character and throw out the rest: $foo =~ s/(\s)\s+/$1/g; Or, if spaces (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi You could try: www.192.com - this is like directory enquiries (or if you can get to the UK operator, dial 192 for the phone directory enquiries. www.eyp.co.uk - if you know the company name Mike (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.uk.en, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Actually, I think a simpler way is: $string =~ s/(\s)\s+/$1/g; The 'g' option at the end of the regexp will actually just do the replace everywhere in the string that it can, with no real need to loop... Ain't TMTOWTDI great? :) DaveE (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) What about something like while ($string =~ s/(\s\s+)/substr($&,1,1)/e) {} ? That should replace all whitespace ([ \t\n\r\f]) that's repeated one or more times (that's the first part of the expression) with the first character matching in that (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi, I'm looking into a quick and simple way to strip off all surplus white space from a string with Perl. If two consecutive characters are <SPACE> and <RET>, for example, it doesn't matter to me which one is preserved and which one is chopped off. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, there's always the other Neal Stephenson stuff, if you haven't read it. And especially if you like Cryptonomicon, I highly recommend the books he's written with his uncle under the pen name "Stephen Bury". ("Cobweb" and "Interface"). (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi, I've recently read Neal Stephenson's novel "Cryptonomicon", which I found very entertaining. Are there anybody can think of any other books that I may enjoy? I'm not really into science fiction or fantasy. Fredrik (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you want to find a phone number for a person/business, try (URL) the UK the opposite search (numbers -> addresses) is not available to the general public. Chris (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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As part of a project I've undertaken at my job, I have to track down one of our clients in London. I'm in Pennsylvania; if the client were US-domestic, I'd know how to do Net phonesearches or even how to dial information. Is there a basic "directory (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.uk.en, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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