[plug] Re: perl program to strip blank lines from a file

[David Buddrige]

matching "^\r\n$" does the trick [in perl].   thanks heaps guys! 8-) 

David. 

Ryan writes: 

> On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 15:36, David Buddrige wrote:
>> Hi all,  
>> 
>> I am tryin to put together a program which will strip blank lines out of a 
>> text file.  To this end, I have written the following perl program; but it 
>> doesn't seem to work... can anyone see why?  To my mind, the regex ^$ should 
>> match lines that have no content, but this does not seem to be so... 
> 
> If they have no content, they will contain at the very least a new line
> character.  hexdump -c on the file will show you the escape characters
> at the appropriate spots.  It may be a simple \n or  \r\n for DOS files
> (from memory). 
> 
> Ryan 
> 
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