Hi, I am reading a .txt file with the following format: 
1    1    Foo    Bar    Baz
<blank line>
1    1    Foo    Bar    Baz

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I would like to remove the blank lines btwn each record. I am trying the following code to do that: 
while (<FILE>) {
    
    if (/(^$)/) {
        s/$1//;
    }
}

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I run the script with no errors, but when I look and see if the blank lines have been removed from the .txt file, there is no change. I have been trying debugging statements to see if the regex does indeed match, and it does. But the substitution does not seem to be working. It seems like an easy problem to fix, but I'm not gettting anywhere with it. Thank you.

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