Re: One-liner removes whitespace-only lines from text file

This is attributable to abigail: perl -lp00ee file Update: As chip points out, this one-liner removes blank lines and not whitespace-only lines.

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Re: Re: One-liner removes whitespace-only lines from text file by chip (Curate) on Dec 19, 2001 at 14:39 UTC
Well, 10 out of 10 for cleverness, but abigail's trick only removes empty lines, i.e. those that match /^$/; but the original requirement was to remove lines made up of any combination of whitespace. -- Chip Salzenberg, Free-Floating Agent of Chaos	[reply]


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