in reply to Re: How do I remove all of the blank spaces in a string?
in thread How do I remove all of the blank spaces in a string?

Thank you everybody for the help you've given on this.
But now I need to perform additional work on this string. After removing the spaces, I need to also remove the slashes 
(/)

[download]
. I know how to remove the colons 
(:)

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. It's tricky, with 
s/ / /g

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since 
/

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are the separators.

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Re: Re: Re: How do I remove all of the blank spaces in a string?
by marcink (Monk) on Jun 08, 2001 at 02:46 UTC
    As usual, there's a wide choice of ways to do this ;-) A couple of ways of converting slashes to letters 'q':

    Method one: backslash
    s/\//q/g

    Method two: cool s/// syntax
    s|/|q|g
    s(/)(q)g
    s{/}{q}g
    You don't have to use slashes in s/// -- take a look at 'man perlop'.

    Update: Are you sure you don't want to take a look at Date::Manip and Date::Format? There's a nice parseDate function in the former ;-)

    And one more s/// that probably does exactly what you want, in one pass:
    s{(\d\d)/(\d\d)/(\d\d\d\d)\s+(\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)}{$1$2$3$4$5$6}

    -mk
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