Re^4: Regular Expressions: Removing 'only' single spaces from a string

I found that the following works on both sample strings:

$string =~ s/(\S)\s(\S)/$1$2/g;
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Re^5: Regular Expressions: Removing 'only' single spaces from a string by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Oct 20, 2005 at 23:32 UTC
Won't work for a single space at the beginning or end of the string. To fix: `$string =~ s/(\S\|^)\s(\S\|$)/$1$2/g;` [download] But the lookahead solution is preferable. Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply] [d/l]