Hi, If anyone has a elegant solution for this, please share it with me..

I am reading result a file and have already found the lines I wish to join but...this is not working....

I have names like Mary,Alan,David and I am searching for those from file. Once I have found it, I just would like to remove empty lines and attach the next written line after the word.

Original file looked like 

Alan

2.13

Mary 

2.16

And the new file would be:
Alan 2.13
Mary 2.16

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I cant seem to get that end of line off and join those lines...

Small but irritating problems cause I dont know how. 

open (ROWS, "style.txt") || die "File not found";
 while (defined ($rivi = <ROWS>))
  { 
        
    if($rivi =~ /^$names[$i]/)
             
      {
       chomp $rivi;
       $rivi=~tr/\n\n//;             
           $rivi=~s/\n\n//; 
       $rivi=~tr/0xb6//;
       $rivi=~tr/0xb6//;

      .
      .
      .
      .
      my $text=$text.$rivi;
      open (E,">>style1.txt");
         print E $text; 
         close E;
       }

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