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Hi Monks, I'm new to coding and I'm probably missing something obvious. I'm writing a script to place Markdown footer links under their respective paragraphs. So a file that looks like this:

This is a an example of [Markdown][1] footer links. I'm trying to use 
+[Perl][2] to organize them more coherently.

But I'm getting too many newlines and I'm hoping the [PerlMonks][3] ca
+n help.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[2]: http://www.perl.org/
[3]: http://www.perlmonks.org/
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Should look like this:

This is a an example of [Markdown][1] footer links. I'm trying to use 
+[Perl][2] to organize them more coherently.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[2]: http://www.perl.org/

But I'm getting too many newlines and I'm hoping the [PerlMonks][3] ca
+n help.

[3]: http://www.perlmonks.org/
[download]

I want blank lines before and after each block of footer links, but instead, it's placing newlines between each array element, like this:

This is a an example of [Markdown][1] footer links. I'm trying to use 
+[Perl][2] to organize them more coherently.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

[2]: http://www.perl.org/

But I'm getting too many newlines and I'm hoping the [PerlMonks][3] ca
+n help.

[3]: http://www.perlmonks.org/
[download]

Here's the code I'm using:

#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

my $text;
local $/;
$text = <>;

my @url_list = ($text =~ m/\[.*?\]\:.*/g);

$text =~ s/\s+\[.*?\]\:.*//g;

foreach my $line (split /^/, $text) {
    print $line;
    foreach ($line =~ m/\[.*?\]\[(.*?)\]/g) {
        my $link_number = $_;
         print "\n";
        print grep(/(\[$link_number\]\:.*)/, @url_list);
        print "\n";
    }
}
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I've tried chomp on all the relevant variables.

In reply to Preventing Blank Lines Between Printed Array Elements by immamanatee

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