Task = To replace all leading spaces after <br> to &nbsp;

Example below

Input -->Some Text <br>      ABCD</br> Some Thing Else<--

Output-->SomeText<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ABCD</br> Some Thing Else<--

I have written the following code to do the same

$excel_br="<br>";

$line ="Some Text <br>      ABCD</br> Some Thing Else"
$line =~ s/$excel_br /$excel_br&nbsp;/g ;

1 while ($line =~ s/($excel_br(&nbsp;)+)/$1&nbsp;/g ) ;

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I was wondering if the same is possible with a single regex without the while loop ?

In reply to Replace leading Spaces after a tag by Anonymous Monk

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