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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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| (...) 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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| (...) s/009/011/ oops :) --Todd (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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| 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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