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Re: Strip surplus white space with Perl
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Sun, 29 Oct 2000 20:30:48 GMT
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Christopher Lindsey wrote:
> 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 with a single
> instance of the same whitespace type. i.e.
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> \t\t\t becomes \t
> \s\s\s becomes \s
> \t\t\s\s becomes \t\s
> etc.
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:
$string =~ s/(\t\t+| +|\r\r+|\n\n+|\f\f+)/substr($&,1,1)/eg;
Yes, a /g will work here, David was right about that. I usually stick
with a while loop because in some cases it's better (i.e. if you're
using $` and don't want to recalculate things like length from the start
of the string each time).
Chris
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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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| (...) 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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