I have been writing a fairly simple script that will read through a directory of files and then search for the first like of that file (assuming all are text, which they are). However some of the files have blank lines (or carriage returns) as the starting line, so I have directed my perl script to skip over the blank lines...if only it would. I have tried the 2 following things, both which seem not to work: 
if($_ =~ /^\s*$/){...}
OR
if($_ eq "\n") {...}

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The $_ is a line read-in from a text file. The previous examples are not the most elegant way to do this, but nothing seems to work at this point. any advice?

Edit Masem 2001-07-13, Title change from "blank-ity blank blank!#$@!"

In reply to Skipping blank lines in a file by beej

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