Replacing 3 Spaces

[drkestrel]

I want to replace 3 spaces with

null

?

Somehow, I thought it is good to use \s, but

$code             =~ s/'\s\s\s'/null/;

couldn't match three spaces in quotes??
Why is this?

$code             =~ s/'\s+'/null/;

could match 1+ space, but this is not the required behaviour

 

[drkestrel]

$code     =~ s/\'   \'/null/;

doesn't work, either :-(

 

[goBoating]

'Must be something else going on...... this works for me all day long.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$str = "1'   '3'  '2";
print "$str\n";

$str =~ s/'\s\s\s'//;
print "$str\n";

That outputs
1' '3' '2
1 3' '2

Using Perl 5.6 on Solaris and ActivePerl 5.6 (build 613)

??

HTH


keep the rudder amid ship and beware the odd typo