Re: How can I strip an arbitary number of "inner" spaces from a string?

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$string="From: Some Text"; $string=~s/\s+//;
\s+ will match one or more occurances of white space
$string =~/\s+//g ;
## global operator g will strip all the white spaces present

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Re^2: How can I strip an arbitary number of "inner" spaces from a string? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 17, 2004 at 07:07 UTC
That will remove not just runs of multiple blanks, but all blanks in his string. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]

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