Hi, problem I have been having is following, I know solution is there but I cant seem to get there.... I am reading by user defined file, which looks like: 
jan 2.76
feb 3.20
mar 1.6
apr 4.00

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In the user file there might be empty lines which I wish to ignore, I would like to know how many lines actually have text on.......one of several versions of code attempts 
$empty[0] ="";
open (VER,$f_name);
while (defined ($rows = <VER>))
    {  
    chomp($rows); 
    ($rows1,$rows2)=split(/\ /,$rows);  
    $names[$l]=$rows1;
    $versions[$l]=$rows2;
    
    if ($names[$l] != $empty[0] ) #HOW should this be done???
        {
    $l++;
        }                    
    } 
close VER;

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How to compare if the line is empty so that $l does not increase in case of empty table member.... BR Hewarn

In reply to How to find empty in empty by Anonymous Monk

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