As others have put - it is hard to tell where the spaces are coming from without more code. However, your replacement hash looks fine, so you probably have a sneaky space in your replacement code along the lines of (but a '#' instead of ' '):

my $string = '<TList.Bullet><TList.Item>sometext</TList.Item></TList.B
+ullet>';
print "Before : \'$string\'\n";

my %find_replace = (
        q[<TList.Bullet>]     => q[<ul>],
        q[</TList.Bullet>]     => q[</ul>],
        q[<TList.Item>]     => q[<li>],
        q[</TList.Item>]     => q[</li>],
);

for (keys %find_replace){
    $string =~ s/\Q$_\E/\#$find_replace{$_}/;
}

print "After : \'$string\'\n";

## Gives :
# Before : '<TList.Bullet><TList.Item>sometext</TList.Item></TList.Bul
+let>'
# After : '#<ul>#<li>sometext#</li>#</ul>'

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But it woul help to see the replacement code and come real input / output.

Update : Forgot to include output... Now included with code.

Just a something something...

In reply to Re: Remove blank space during find/replace by BioLion
in thread Remove blank space during find/replace by Melk

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