in reply to Re^2: How to test for a new line
in thread How to test for a new line

That's only working because whatever's in $myvar1 and "\n" both happen to evaluate to 0 in a numeric context. You really meant eq; see perldoc perlop.

Update: Now if what you really mean is "is it a blank line with nothing but whitespace" you probably want $myvar1 =~ /^\s*$/

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Re^4: How to test for a new line
by BadMojo (Novice) on May 13, 2005 at 15:19 UTC
    if ($tfcont1 eq \n) nor if ($tfcont1 eq "\n") works any ideas?

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