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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search for an undetermined number of spaces Post 303013638 by bakunin on Sunday 25th of February 2018 02:29:17 AM
Old 02-25-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by bedtime
As far as I know there are no tabs to deal with in the program, thankfully!


I ended up using this code:
Code:
awk '{gsub (/ +/, " ")}1' file

Just in case there are tabs:
Code:
awk '{gsub (/[<space><tab>]+/, " ")}1' file

Replace "<space>" and "<tab>" with literal space/tab characters when using this.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::ProhibitHardTabs(3pm) User Contributed Perl DocumentationPerl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::ProhibitHardTabs(3pm)

NAME
Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::ProhibitHardTabs - Use spaces instead of tabs. AFFILIATION
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution. DESCRIPTION
Putting hard tabs in your source code (or POD) is one of the worst things you can do to your co-workers and colleagues, especially if those tabs are anywhere other than a leading position. Because various applications and devices represent tabs differently, they can cause you code to look vastly different to other people. Any decent editor can be configured to expand tabs into spaces. Perl::Tidy also does this for you. This Policy catches all tabs in your source code, including POD, quotes, and HEREDOCs. The contents of the "__DATA__" section are not examined. CONFIGURATION
Hard tabs in a string are always forbidden (use " " instead). But hard tabs in a leading position are allowed when they are used to indent code statements, "qw()" word lists, and regular expressions with the "/x" modifier. However, if you want to forbid all tabs everywhere, then add this to your .perlcriticrc file: [CodeLayout::ProhibitHardTabs] allow_leading_tabs = 0 NOTES
Beware that Perl::Critic may report the location of the string that contains the tab, not the actual location of the tab, so you may need to do some hunting. I'll try and fix this in the future. AUTHOR
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@imaginative-software.com> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Imaginative Software Systems. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. perl v5.14.2 2012-06-07 Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::ProhibitHardTabs(3pm)
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