in reply to passing token output to a variable

to see your program how perl sees it run

perl -MO=Deparse,-p foo.pl

Then write that expression as

( $cleaned = $token->as_is ) =~ s/\s{2,}/ /gs;

parens force assignment before substitution

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Re^2: passing token output to a variable (parens force assignment before substitution)
by SilverShadow (Initiate) on Jan 06, 2013 at 18:51 UTC
    Thanks, I will try that