in reply to Colorapt for Ubuntu/Debian

A couple of suggestion

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I like to define what the regex is looking for specifically 

s/  \+/ /g; # Remove multiple spaces

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should be 
 
OLD s/\s+/\s/g;

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UPDATE : sorry it should be 
NEW s/\s+//g;

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Re^2: Colorapt for Ubuntu/Debian
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 02, 2015 at 00:42 UTC
    When I try that, I get "Unrecognized escape \s passed through at ./get.pl line 36."
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      AFAIK, \s has been introduced around version 5.10, so it might help if you could upgrade your perl (or, if it's the "system perl", use a mechanism like perlbrew…)
      Big Oops! Sorry, apparently I was not yet awake enough when I wrote this
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        HUMBUG!

        $ perl4.036 -Ilib -w -le '$_="abc de  f";s/\s+//g;print'
abcdef

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        It is just that \s is not allowed in the replacement part. What would you expect?


        Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
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