If it's not just a \cr\lf issue carried along with transferring a file from a DOS/Windows machine to a Unix machine without proper line-end conversion, then the leading whitespace theory must be accurate. As others have mentioned you can deal with that with a s/\s+// substitution regex.

However, it also looks like there may be extra newlines in there as well. You apparently want only single newline characters at the end of each line, so that the text appears "single spaced".

Update: ^\s+ will also wipe out lines that contain only "newline" characters: a desirable side-effect. However, after that, it may be helpful to completely eliminate elements from @array that have now become empty.


Dave


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In reply to Re: Text File Parsing. by davido
in thread Text File Parsing. by Anonymous Monk

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