Perl has done just what I wanted ...

[Mark Carey]

Ok,
So it isn't prose, actually you may want to hang me, I wanted to remove
all lines in the file containing 1. just whitespace and 2. starting with
a word, allowing for preceding whitespace.
<snip>
while (<>) {
    if (/\S/) {
        if (/^\s*[a-zA-Z]/) {
        } else {
            print;
        }
    }
}
</snip>

I am going through the output of an FEA program removing the annoying
column headers it insists on putting at the top of every page.  I want
to import the data into another program and the stupid headers kept
confusing it.

Cheers for the suggestions,

Mark