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From:	rob@research.att.com
Date:	Sun, 21 Feb 1993 23:48:41 -0500
To:	sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
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	How about:

	y/^ +/ x/ +/ c/ /

that's using ^ again; i thought the exercise was to avoid it.
at least, that is the exercise i've been working on.
when i made my suggestion
	x s2/ +/ /g
i implicitly assumed, as i think did the original poster, that
each line began with white space.  as i sit here now, i can't
find a clean-enough-to-use version that doesn't use ^.  the
magic thing about ^ is that it works at the beginning of the file;
otherwise i could cheat.  the poster said he had whole lines, hence:

	-#1,. x/\n?.+/ v/\n/ x/ +/ c/ /

but this is already too silly.

-rob