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-----Original Message----- From: Anidil Rajendran-Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 11:03 AM To: Sundara Rajan; Mehta, Perdeep; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Perl-unix-users] Perl help | | while (my $line = <FILE>) { | chop($line); | if ($line =~ /^$/) { <<I'm wondering what this pattern above would be doing -> "/^$/" as special characters they would be starting with and ending with respectively - if they are not being used as special characters , then you may need to escape>> That pattern is to skip blank lines ?? _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
