Re: Perl string manipulation

From: Roy Johnson (rjohnson_at_shell.com)
Date: 10/22/03 

Date: 22 Oct 2003 10:36:17 -0700

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jared_zubke@und.nodak.edu (jared in ecs) wrote in message news:<9858258e.0310212215.7a2303d5@posting.google.com>...
> I need to get rid of the spaces from the contents of a varible.

tr/ //d;

(This will leave tabs, newlines, and carriage returns alone, only removing spaces.)

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