Re: Regex for white space

From: William Park (opengeometry_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 11/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:57:06 -0500

Ying Zu <nye@shao.ac.cn> wrote:
>
> Suppose a series of white spaces in between a string, just like"
>
> "foo fooo foooo fooooo"
>
> Now I wonder how can I get a new string contains no spaces or substuted by symbols like _
>
> Maybe a simple regex use but I am a newbie in shell script...
>
> thanks :)

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