Monks, I am writing a perl script that runs an executable file, then parses through the results, however im having some issues, for some reason, when the .exe is ran, it returns this: 
 S t a r t i n g   c h e c k ,   p o r t :   8 0 ,   w e b :   " / " .

 C r e a t e d :   0 7   A p r   2 0 1 0   1 8 : 2 2 : 5 7   - 0 0 0 0
 V e r s i o n :   5 . 0 . 2 . 6 7 9 0
 P o r t   8 0 :   C h e c k   c o m p l e t e d .

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So it puts a space after every character it seems, so single spaces are double spaces. I googled it quite a bit, but I couldnt find a way to remove all single spaces, and make double spaces into a single space without totally removing it, any ideas?

In reply to Perl Regex with Extra Spaces by jhyland87

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