So i would like to do some in-place editing of certain files and want some suggestions. Basically I am looking for portions of the file with the following:

Tag {
     Description       "blah blah blah"
     ...
     Name              "test tag"
     ...
}
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I need to remove whitespace from the name that is in between the quotes. What I am currently doing is the following:

$^I = ".bak";
@ARGV = "test.txt";

while(<>) {
     if(/^\s+Tag {/) {
         print;
         #skip over lines before 'Name' line
         while(<>) {
            if(/^\s+Name/) {
                s/"(.*)\s+(.*)/"$1$2"/g;
                print;
                last;
            }
            else {
                print;
            }
         }
     else {
        print;
     }
}
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There has to be a better way to do this..

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