On Jul 14, 2:59 pm, chas.ow...@gmail.com ("Chas. Owens") wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 00:50, C.DeRykus <dery...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> snip>> s/(\w+)\s/$1 /g;
> snip
> > Neat. Using the \K construct available in 5.10, you can even
> > eliminate the need for the capture:
>
> > s/ \w+ \K \s / /gx;
>
> snip
>
> Yeah, but both of these are fragile, the following string won't work:
>
> data: "this, is a string" more: "this is another"
Agreed this isn't the most robust but there wasn't a
complete spec so "simple quoted string" might throw
someone.
And I notice the OP's original despace sub for instance
contained: s/\s/ /g;
But, one of the solutions morphed that to:
s/ / /g
which, might or might not, be right either.
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Charles DeRykus
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