For the sake of argument we'll assume that you've assigned your list to an array named @LIST. Try this.
@NEWLIST = grep(!/^$/, @LIST); # Grep the list for any element that is not empty. Now @NEWLIST should only contain those entries that have some content to them. Hope this helps. -----Original Message----- From: Busse, Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 7:35 AM To: Perl Beginners Subject: Squeezing a list I have a list that contains some good data and some empty strings, like: ("Abiosdsk", "Afd", "", "", "", "Aha154x", "Aha174x", "aic78xx", "", "Alerter", "", "", "", "Always", ...) Is there a simple way to get rid of the empty strings and compress the list down to: ("Abiosdsk", "Afd", "Aha154x", "Aha174x", "aic78xx", "Alerter", "Always", .....) TIA... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
