Your example implies that sequences of more than one space should be deleted completely. Is that correct? That would be

s/ {2,}//g;

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You provided too little specification and too little sample data, though. (More of either would have been better.) You're likely to get 10 different answers each guessing at a slightly different approach to solve your problem. One of them is probably going to be what you need, and everyone else just wasted their time. Please read How (Not) To Ask A Question and be more precise next time.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: How can I strip an arbitary number of "inner" spaces from a string? by Aristotle
in thread How can I strip an arbitary number of "inner" spaces from a string? by habhab

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