On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Sharan Basappa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > 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?
>
Yeah that should work just fine.
