Reminiscent of the 2>&1 syntax of many shells, this line instructs perl to send standard error to the same place it sends standard out.

To skip over blanks lines in a perl script, you have several choices. You could use a “next if /^$/” (skip if empty) command or a “next if /^s*$/” skip if empty or only white space.

I looked around for a bit, but didn't find much to suit my needs, but as perl goes, i'm sure there are 400 different better ways to do what i'm doing. I have another perl script running, but its a ...

I have a text file that I need to parse in various ways. I have everything working to my standards using a Perl script, except for the removal of blank lines.Do you know a regex that will work for ...