On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Mark Carey wrote:

> while (<>) {
>     if (/\S/) {
>         if (/^\s*[a-zA-Z]/) {
>         } else {
>             print;
>         }
>     }
> }

Oi! This is perl, why all the cruft?

perl -ne 'print if /\S/ && !/^\s*[\w]/'

you needn't even drag perl into this...

grep -vE '^[ \t]*[a-zA-Z]' | grep -E '[^ \t]'




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