Greetings fellow monks,

This seems like such a simple problem, and perhaps it is and my brain is just extra slow today, but I need your help. I've got a rather long text string in a scalar from which I'd like to filter out multiple white spaces, converting them into just a single space per instance. Simple enough:

$text =~ s/\s+/ /g;

However, I'd like to not do this between a starting label and ending label. Here's some example text:

A Bridge Too Far     Hosted by Rod Stuart     Friendly Skys
42        STARTPRESERVE Life, the universe...    and Everything STOPPR
+ESERVE   X-Files
HotWheels are cool     More movies on Fox           File server

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Basically, I'd love to have a simple regex that does the /\s+/ /og except not do anything between STARTPRESERVE and STOPPRESERVE. Any thoughts? (My appologies if this is really basic. I'm having a bad brain-day.)

-gryphon
code('Perl') || die;

In reply to RegEx to filter \s not between labels by gryphon

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