in reply to How to capture quantified repeats?

This should be trivial

T'is trivial if you use the right tool: 

$ham = "spam\tspam\tspam\t\tyam\tclam";;
@jam = split /\t+/, $ham;;

print "@jam";;
spam spam spam yam clam

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