Re: shortening substitutions

s/^\s+|\s{4}|[";]//;

or possibly

s/^\s+|\s{4,}|[";]//;
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if you want to get rid of 4 or more spaces

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Re^2: shortening substitutions by salva (Canon) on Jun 17, 2005 at 11:38 UTC
well, this is not equivalent to the OP code. For instance, try applying both to `qq(" " foo ; )` Anyway, I'm sure the OP code is missing some `/.../g` regexp modifiers. He should tell us what he really wants to do, and why he wants to write it on a single statement after all.	[reply] [d/l] [select]