you need to make it a global replace, by adding a modifier, ie:

s/\n//g;
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That's assuming you have the whole file in a string. If you have it in an array, use grep to do it:

@array = grep /\S/, @array;
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Where \S represents a non space character - ie, only keep lines that contain non-space characters.

cLive ;-)