At 12:33 PM 6/20/01 -0400, Yacketta, Ronald wrote: >Folks, > >I have been looking for a little regex that would remove NULL (blank) lines >from input. >I have a little script that parses the output of timex (unix), unfortuanly >the timex output >is prepended with a blank line and appended with a blank line as such > >(timex ps -ef > /dev/nul) 2>&1 > >[begin output] > >real 0.00 >user 0.00 >sys 0.0 > >[end output] my $timex = `(timex ps -ef > /dev/null) 2>&1`; # /dev/null has 2 ells on my system $timex =~ tr/\n//s; # Embedded and trailing blank lines $timex =~ s/^\n//; # Leading blank line Yeah, someone'll come up with a way of doing them all in one statement... but this is more understandable to a beginner. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com
