>>>>> "Y" == Yanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
no one seems to have seen my earlier post on this so here it is again and it is much shorter. Y> perl -pe'/\S/?($e=0):($e++and$_="")' filename perl -0777pe's/^\s*\n/\n/m' file uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com ----- Stem and Perl Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding ---- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org