Skipping blank lines while reading a flat file.

2005-10-07 Thread Dave Thacker
Perl 5.6 on linux Given this test file. --start- this is my file end-- I want to skip the blank lines and just print the lines with text, like this this is myfile This is my test case code. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $opt_testfile=test-text.txt; open (TS,

Re: Skipping blank lines while reading a flat file.

2005-10-07 Thread Alois Heuboeck
Dave, (this is one I know :-) ) I want to skip the blank lines and just print the lines with text, like this this is myfile This is my test case code. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $opt_testfile=test-text.txt; open (TS, $opt_testfile) or die can't open file; while (TS) { chomp;

Re: Skipping blank lines while reading a flat file.

2005-10-07 Thread John W. Krahn
Dave Thacker wrote: Perl 5.6 on linux Given this test file. --start- this is my file end-- I want to skip the blank lines and just print the lines with text, like this this is myfile This is my test case code. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict;

RE: Skipping blank lines while reading a flat file.

2005-10-07 Thread Ron Goral
-Original Message- From: Dave Thacker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 07:05 To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Skipping blank lines while reading a flat file. Perl 5.6 on linux Given this test file. --start- this is my file

Re: Skipping blank lines while reading a flat file.

2005-10-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Oct 7, Dave Thacker said: Given this test file. --start- this is my file end-- I want to skip the blank lines and just print the lines with text, like this When you say blank, do you mean lines with NO characters at all (other than the ending newline) or