On Jan 3, Busse, Rich said:
>("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",
>....)
I'd use grep():
@compressed = grep length, @array;
That only allows elements with a non-zero length to get through.
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