but it is not working
In what way?

I made 2 changes to your assignment to $data. I used q with parens because you have a single quote inside your string (client's), and I removed the trailing whitespace (other than \n) from all of your lines. This works for me: 

use warnings;
use strict;

my $data = q(3rd Line Support - Managed Services  &  Hosting

     Caerphilly, Wales - Circa 40k DOE + Excellent Company Benefits







     Permanent

Posted: Wednesday, 29 May 2013

























3rd Line Support - Managed Services  &  Hosting




Role:



Providing support to client's infrastructures and maintaining high ava
+ilability through proactive measures



Resolving complex server issues escalated by other internal department
+s by administration and troubleshooting problems.

Ensuring clients  &  partners are updated on current status of issues

Implement operational procedures, tools and best practice as defined i
+n corporate business plan

Ensure that knowledge is retained through documentation of processes a
+nd procedures and implementation of server changes.

Updating and maintaining our Knowledge base software.



Documenting troubleshooting carried out



Ensure all changes are documented through the change management proces
+s

Execute change management tasks in line with defined processes




Assist in the analysis and resolution of problems as raised by the pro
+blem management functions);


$data=~ s/\n{2,50}/\n\n/g;

print "$data\n";

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In reply to Re: Clean a chunk of data by toolic
in thread Clean a chunk of data by Anonymous Monk

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