Re^2: Substituting white spaces with a tab changes my string into numeric value

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Thank you too.

I figured that somehow I got a numerical value of the number of tabs, since when I used:

 s/\s+/\t/

(thus without the "g") the number that was returned was 1 (instead of 2). I had no idea however, how this was caused.

I frequently fail to recognize this kind of "equivalents". I hope this is just being new to perl.......