Re^3: How can I strip an arbitary number of "inner" spaces from a string?

A bit shorter but should still work okay:

s/(\:)\s+/$1/
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or just for fun:

s/(:) +/$1/
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Second probably has loads of reasons why it'll fall over in other cases but seems to work fine here.

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