> You are completely right. :-)
>
> What you want to be doing is this: $temp =~ s/\s+/ /g;
> The reason for that is simple, \s is used to match a space or multiple
> spaces, it is not used to print a space that is actually done by the ' '
> (space). It might seem a little strange at first but just try and think of
> how you would read something like s/ {10}/........../g; that would make no
> sense at all and you would have to go count the number of spaces so when
> matchin you use \s to represend a space, but when printing or substituting
> you simple use the ' ' (space).Thanks. BTW, a variable ($x = " ") instead of actual space would do, right? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
