hcshim — Thu, 18 May 2000 21:42:00 +0000

If you just want to skip the empty lines, you can try the following code:

open (TEXTFILE, "../textfile.txt");
@doc = <TEXTFILE>;
close (TEXTFILE);
foreach (@doc){
unless (/^\n$/){print "$item\n"}
}

[This message has been edited by hcshim (edited 18 May 2000).]

Rob Pengelly — Sun, 14 May 2000 17:14:00 +0000

Lets say that when you went
@array = <IN>; , @array was
@array = ("hello","","how","","are","","you");

Use the following code to only print the lines that are not empty.

code:

@array = ("hello","","how","","are","","you");

foreach (@array)
{
	if($_)
	{
		print $_ , "\n";
	}
}
[/code]
The output of this would be:
hello
how
are
you

Hope that helps a little.

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[This message has been edited by robp (edited 14 May 2000).]