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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search for an undetermined number of spaces Post 303013608 by bedtime on Saturday 24th of February 2018 09:29:43 AM
Old 02-24-2018
Search for an undetermined number of spaces

I would like to find an undetermined number of spaces and shorten them to one space. I am running Debian in mksh. Script running in #!/bin/sh. Sorry to not include all code. The program is too big and involves an online file... too much hassle to solve a simple issue.


Ex.,

I start with (pretend the periods are spaces),

"This . . . . sentence has . . . . . . an undetermined . . number of . spaces between . . . . . . each word."


The result would be:

"This sentence has an undetermined number of spaces."


What I have so far is working but extremely poor code:
Code:
        {gsub (/  /, " ")}
        {gsub (/  /, " ")}
        {gsub (/  /, " ")}
        {gsub (/  /, " ")}
        {gsub (/  /, " ")}
        {gsub (/  /, " ")}
        {gsub (/  /, " ")}
        {gsub (/  /, " ")}

I've tried several combinations to no effect. I've been reading up on awk in a tutorial, but so far no mention of this situation.
 

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DR::Tarantool::Spaces(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				DR::Tarantool::Spaces(3pm)

NAME
DR::Tarantool::Spaces - spaces container SYNOPSIS
use DR::Tarantool::Spaces; my $s = new DR::Tarantool::Spaces({ 1 => { name => 'users', # space name default_type => 'STR', # undescribed fields fields => [ qw(login password role), { name => 'counter', type => 'NUM' }, { name => 'something', type => 'UTF8STR', }, { name => 'opts', type => 'JSON', } ], indexes => { 0 => 'login', 1 => [ qw(login password) ], 2 => { name => 'my_idx', fields => 'login', }, 3 => { name => 'my_idx2', fields => [ 'counter', 'something' ] } } }, 0 => { ... } }); my $f = $s->pack_field('users', 'counter', 10); my $f = $s->pack_field('users', 1, 10); # the same my $f = $s->pack_field(1, 1, 10); # the same my $ts = $s->pack_keys([1,2,3] => 'my_idx'); my $t = $s->pack_primary_key([1,2,3]); DESCRIPTION
The package describes all spaces that You use. It supports the following field types: NUM, NUM64, STR - standard tarantool <http://tarantool.org> types. UTF8STR - the same as STR, but string will be utf8-decoded after extracting from database. INT & INT64 - the same as NUM and NUM64, but contain signed values. JSON - the filed will be encoded by JSON::XS before inserting and decoded after extracting from database. METHODS
new my $spaces = DR::Tarantool::Spaces->new( $spaces ); space Returns space object by number or name. my $space = $spaces->space('name'); my $space = $spaces->space(0); pack_field packs one field before making database request my $field = $spaces->pack_field('space', 'field', $data); unpack_field unpacks one field after extracting data from database my $field = $spaces->unpack_field('space', 'field', $data); pack_tuple packs tuple before making database request my $t = $spaces->pack_tuple('space', [ 1, 2, 3 ]); unpack_tuple unpacks tuple after extracting data from database my $t = $spaces->unpack_tuple('space', @fields); SPACES methods new constructor use DR::Tarantool::Spaces; my $space = DR::Tarantool::Space->new($no, $space); name returns space name number returns space number pack_field packs field before making database request unpack_field unpacks field after extracting data from database pack_tuple packs tuple before making database request unpack_tuple unpacks tuple after extracting data from database COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2011 Dmitry E. Oboukhov <unera@debian.org> Copyright (C) 2011 Roman V. Nikolaev <rshadow@rambler.ru> This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License. VCS
The project is placed git repo on github: https://github.com/unera/dr-tarantool/ <https://github.com/unera/dr-tarantool/>. perl v5.14.2 2012-06-04 DR::Tarantool::Spaces(3pm)
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