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RE: Re: How do I remove blank lines from text files?

by httptech (Chaplain)
on Jul 11, 2000 at 06:48 UTC ( [id://21908]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to (jeffa) Re: How do I remove blank lines from text files?
in thread How do I remove blank lines from text files?

Of course, if you're going to bother to start up vi, you might as well just do perl -pi -e 's/^\n$//' file.txt But I think this exceeds the scope of the original poster's question, since his program is already parsing the file.

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