Re^2: Deleting intermediate whitespaces, but leaving one behind each word

definitely better than any solution using split and join

Well, the best solutions are the ones you understand the most. I doubt there's a performance issue here anyway. So ++ for giving a solution based on the original one.

NB: split /\s+/, $CPU can be written split " ", $CPU since the latter will be translated to the former, as explained in the doc. Then if you don't need the temp variable:
my $result = join " ", split " ", $CPU;
(Okay, maybe in that case using /\s+/ makes it look a little less silly :P)

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Re^3: Deleting intermediate whitespaces, but leaving one behind each word by Laurent_R (Canon) on Dec 05, 2017 at 11:10 UTC
Well, the best solutions are the ones you understand the most. I doubt there's a performance issue here anyway. Yes, Eily++, I agree with both sentences. I meant "better" only in the sense that I find that the solutions using the `s///` substitution operator are just simpler. And, yes, I would also avoid the intermediate temp variable by pipe-lining the `join` and the `split` as you've shown, but, here, I wanted to stay close to the OP's solution. As for the more awkish version of `split` using the `' '` string for splitting on multiple spaces, I know it exists and I agree it looks somewhat simpler, but I tend to prefer a regex such as `/\s+/` because I find it states more explicitly what it is doing; as an example, I wouldn't know for sure (off the top of my head, without looking up in the documentation or testing, that is) whether it would also split on tabs or new line characters.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Deleting intermediate whitespaces, but leaving one behind each word
by Laurent_R (Canon) on Dec 05, 2017 at 11:10 UTC

Well, the best solutions are the ones you understand the most. I doubt there's a performance issue here anyway.

Eily

s///

And, yes, I would also avoid the intermediate temp variable by pipe-lining the join and the split as you've shown, but, here, I wanted to stay close to the OP's solution.

As for the more awkish version of split using the ' ' string for splitting on multiple spaces, I know it exists and I agree it looks somewhat simpler, but I tend to prefer a regex such as /\s+/ because I find it states more explicitly what it is doing; as an example, I wouldn't know for sure (off the top of my head, without looking up in the documentation or testing, that is) whether it would also split on tabs or new line characters.

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