Hey Tim,
This will check for lines that have nothing but white space in them and skip them.
White space
includes newlines as well...
Shawn
open(F,'file.txt');
while(<F>) {
next if(/^\s*$/);
blah...
}
close(F);
----- Original Message -----
From: "Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 4:18 PM
Subject: find blank line
> When parsing a text file - what is the best way to skip a "blank" line -
> when I find the length I get a length of 1 (perhaps the newline). I know
> that I could chomp($_) and then if(length($_) != 0) {do something} else
> {next} but I feel that there should be a way to have an if($_ = $blank)
> statement.
>
> Any thoughts . . .
>
> tim
>
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