in reply to Re: remove blank lines with regex
in thread remove blank lines with regex
Do not slurp in a file into an array. Someday that input file will be huge.
I second that, and here is my 2-cent solution:
perl -wnl -e 'print $_ unless /^$/' infile >outfile
see also:
perldoc perlrun perldoc perlre
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