[Chicago-talk] scalar manipulation

[Andy Lester]

On Mar 31, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Richard Reina wrote:

> Forgive me if this something I should know, but can someone tell me  
> the simplest way to remove blank spaces from a scalar?
>
> I need to turn
>
> $a = "now is a good time for a beer";
>
> to
>
> "nowisagoodtimeforabeer";

Regular expressions.

$a =~ s/ //g;

xoa

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