>> What I want to do is replace any repeating spaces (two or more) with a
>> tab. I know the examples below do not work but am just giving it as
>> "pseudocode" of replacing repeating spaces (between 2 and 50) with a
>> tab:
>>
>> s/[2..50]/\t/gi;
>>
>> or maybe hex value (hex 20 is the space cha
On Saturday, September 6, 2003, at 07:59 AM, perlwannabe wrote:
I have a text file that is a mess. It contains various fields with
lots
of spaces between the fields. The amount of spaces differs from field
to
field. Here is a sample of the file:
<8sp>NAME:<13sp>JOHN
SMITH<22sp>RANK:<3sp>CAP
I have a text file that is a mess. It contains various fields with lots
of spaces between the fields. The amount of spaces differs from field to
field. Here is a sample of the file:
<8sp>NAME:<13sp>JOHN
SMITH<22sp>RANK:<3sp>CAPTAIN<15sp>WIFE:<6sp>POCAHONTAS...
What I would like to have after p
