Re: Re: Re: TIMTOWTDI

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Thanks for the $text =~ s/\[[^\]]*\]/ /g; tip; that is better. As for the /m on these

 
$text =~ s/^\s+//;
$text =~ s/\s+$//;
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I think I'd put the /m on the third RE

$text =~ s/\s+/ /m; #yes?
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so taken together the triple REs mean: "remove leading whitespace, trailing whitespace, and make all interior whitespace (even across line breaks) into single spaces".

Many thanks for the OT-but-useful teaching!

rkg

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Re: Re: Re: Re: TIMTOWTDI by tachyon (Chancellor) on Sep 11, 2003 at 10:54 UTC
The /m only modifies the match behaviour of ^ and $ letting them match the begining and end of any line rather than entire string. It has no effect on the final RE which just needs a /g to do all interior whitespace. cheers tachyon s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print	[reply]

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