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Re: Strip surplus white space with Perl
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Sun, 29 Oct 2000 16:09:22 GMT
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"Fredrik Glöckner" wrote:
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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. Any suggestions?
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 string. The while() loop does it
until there aren't any more matches.
Chris
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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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| 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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