This may not be the best way But I wud work fine

sub remove_space {
        my($s)=@_;
        $s=~s/\s+//g;
        return $s;
}

while(<FILE>){
        s/^(.*?)\s+(.*)$/$1.remove_space($2)/
         print;

}




Panel Vincent - A53 wrote:
> I have a problem with a regular expression :
> 
> I process a text file with a list of names.
> 
> I would like to reformat names like
> 
>   Francois de   la Varenne
> Macha Meril 
> Buzz    Mac Cormack
> 
> (there must be at least two words in the name)
> to something like this :
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> In other words : "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
> 
> I tried the following thing and it doesn't work ($name already contains one
> of those names) :
> 
> $name=~s/\s*(\w+)\s+(\w+)(\s+(\w+))*\s*/$1.$2$3\@domain.top/
> 
> 
> Does anyone knows the right regexp to do this (I guess it's the second
> expression with $s which is wrong)
> 
> Vincent Panel.



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