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Re: newlines in regular expressionsby conrad (Beadle) |
on Dec 07, 2004 at 10:29 UTC ( [id://412878]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
None of the non-<>-print solutions I see here will cope with a single opening blank line since they all search for multiple \n characters. This does the trick using the /m modifier, which allows ^ to match the beginning of a line anywhere in your string: perl -p0777e 's/^\n+//mg'
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