Despite this having been voted down more than once, this may be a better answer than the others provided so far. I suspect it was voted down because the original question said "more than 2" while this answer "modifies" cases of single spaces.

I find it interesting that everyone so far seems to have interpretting "more than 2" to be "2 or more" since all of the answers reduce a double space to a single space. Even the original question didn't include an example of two spaces being left unmodified so it may be that the original poster actually meant that.

But the above answer leaves single spaces alone (it replaces them with a single space, which is what we started with) so it isn't any worse of an answer than the others. And it may be better because it will replace a tab with a space (and a tab will often be displayed as multiple spaces).

But all of the answers will also turn newlines into spaces (at least if they are adjacent to any other whitespace), so I probably wouldn't use any of them.

If you wanted to modify whitespace but not \n (nor \r), then you can use 

    s/[^\S\n\r]{3,}/ /g

[download]
for example.

                - tye

In reply to Re^2: Silly Regex question (better?) by tye
in thread Silly Regex question by Anonymous Monk

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