SPUG: multiple spaces in string

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On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, at 11:31  AM, jerry gay wrote:
> using the transliteration operator
>   $string =~ tr/ //s;
>
> may be more accurate than a regular expression
>   $string =~ s/\s+//g;
>
> as it won't replace tabs, or combinations of spaces and tabs.
> generally, it's also faster, as it does not perform backtracking.

That's right and even s/\s+/ /g can be improved b/c as is it is 
substituting
every " " with a " " too which is pointless. This would be closer to the
literal intent:
   s/  */ /g;
  # or even
  s/(?<= ) *//g;

-Ashley
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