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in reply to Re: Cleaning file
in thread Cleaning file

sorry, i don't actually get what you're trying to achieve with this regexp. it only replaces one or more spaces with the expression "^[A-Z][0-9]". perhaps you meant this?!
perl -i -pe 's/.//g' filename

but i think the best way of doing this should be pileofrogs's idea.


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