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Old 11-07-2011
PERL : Remove spaces in a variable

I have a variable

Quote:
$dates = "2011 | 11 | 11 | November | Nov | 07 | 7" ;
I want to remove the spaces in between.
The output should be

Quote:
$new_dates = "2011|11|11|November|Nov|07|7"
How can this be done
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 11-07-2011
Pattern Match in PERL

Hi,

Try this one,

Code:
$new_dates =~ s/\s+//g;

Cheers,
RangaSmilie
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