in reply to Replacing multiple spaces into one character?

tr/ /_/s;, as /s is for squash multiple.

Doing it in one line while removing leading whitespace is trickier. There are several potentially nasty regular expressions. Just say no.

Update: Squashing several expressions onto one line technically counts, but it wasn't what I meant, smart guy!

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Re: Re: Replacing multiple spaces into one character?
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Oct 09, 2001 at 07:24 UTC 
    $str = '  say  as  simple  as  a   b   c  :-)  ';
$str =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g, $str =~ tr/ /_/s, print $str;

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