in reply to replacing blank lines
This might be a roundabout way of doing it:
Thus Spake the Master Programmer:
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless."
     ---Tao of Programing
unless (<FILE> =~ /([a-z]|[A-Z]|[0-9]/) { #delete line }
Thus Spake the Master Programmer:
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless."
     ---Tao of Programing
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