Re: regular express

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:41:36 +0000, linda wrote:

> I have a string looks like:
>
> "hello, world! perl programming is
> great"
>
> How I can use substitute and regular express to replace multiple space
> to a single space, that is, make this string as:
>
> "hello, world! perl programming is great"
>
> Thanks in advance.

To avoid people treating this newsgroup as a script-writing service you
should always give examples of code you have tried when you post
questions.

However, as you seem to be newbie and I'm feeling generous here you go:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $line = 'hello, world! perl programming is
great';

print "$line\n";

$line =~ s/\s+/ /g;

print "$line\n";


BTW they are called regular expressions :-) Chris.
.

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