[Wellington-pm] I must be stupid...

[Andrew McMillan]

On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 19:03 +0800, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> 2009/5/5 Andrew McMillan <andrew at morphoss.com>:
> > Can someone please explain to me why I get a difference between these:
> >  $text =~ s/\s+/ /s;
> > vs.
> >  $text = join( ' ', split( /\s+/s, $text) );
> 
> I think it's the 'g': s/\s+/ /s will only replace the first continuous
> sequence of whitespace with a single space. If you want to replace all
> the spaces, you want s/\s+/ /sg.

Thanks.  It seems I was being (very) thick.  I blame it on too many late
nights.  I had something like this in plenty of other places in my
program too.


> Also: hello from Singapore!

Heh.  How appropriate to get my answer from .sg indeed :-)

Cheers,
				Andrew.

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