Hi, nice website :-) I'm pretty new to Perl and I've got the following question. I create an array of hashes with values as follows: 
my @Workflow = (
  {Body    => "1. Blah
               2. Blubb
               3. more blah",
  },[...]

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Now this returns me (in a mod_perl environment) formatted text. Can I get rid of this? A workaround would probably be to use the following with \n, I don't want to use this... 
my @Workflow = (
  {Body    => "1. Blah\n" .
              "2. Blubb\n" .
              "3. more blah",
  },[...]

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Anyway is there a kind of flag which supresses the formatting in the first case? And why don't the following work? I tried to get rid of the spaces afterwards... 
$Workflow[$i]{Body} =~ s/^\s+//m;
$Workflow[$i]{Body} =~ s/\s{2,}//;
$Workflow[$i]{Body} =~ s/ {2,}//;

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It's strange. The last one returns, in a 4 line value, the first 2 lines cleaned up from leading spaces, 3rd and 4th line untouched. TIA Michael

In reply to Multiline Hash - how to get rid of formatting? by klassisc

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