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Re: Re: remove blank lines with regex

by perlplexer (Hermit)
on May 21, 2002 at 13:22 UTC ( [id://168114]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: remove blank lines with regex
in thread remove blank lines with regex

FYI
the /s flag only matters if you have '.' in your regex.
So, /\n\n/ will work just as good as /\n\n/s
From perlre 
...

s   Treat string as single line. That is, change "." to
    match any character whatsoever, even a newline, which 
    normally it would not match.

...

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