Re: Removing whitespaces,tab,line breaks, etc?

$string =~ s/\s+/ /gs;
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Re: Re: Removing whitespaces,tab,line breaks, etc? by FamousLongAgo (Friar) on Jan 09, 2003 at 15:21 UTC
The `s` modifier is superfluous here.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Removing whitespaces,tab,line breaks, etc? by davorg (Chancellor) on Jan 09, 2003 at 15:40 UTC
You're absolutely right of course. The clue was that /s only ever modifies the behaviour of '.' and my regex didn't include a '.'. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply]