Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Reading in a paragraph at a time rather than a line at a time
> helps here.  Perl's idea of a paragraph is some text ending in
> at least one empty line (or EOF), but it helpfully treats
> consecutive empty lines as being a single empty line.

The original poster included lines containing only spaces and 
tabs as "empty lines", so paragraph mode won't do what's 
wanted.

-- 
Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Washington, DC

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