Re: removing the white spaces

Here's an idiomatic way,

my $text = '   The   perl      ';

$text = join ' ', split ' ', $text;
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That problem is called "normalizing whitespace". This solution depends on the whitespace-devouring nature of magical split.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re^2: removing the white spaces by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 13, 2006 at 20:52 UTC
If you view the OP's HTML source, you'll see he actually asked: i should get output as `"The perl"` and not i should get output as `"The perl"` Your solution doesn't answer his question (although that's not your fault).	[reply] [d/l] [select]