Re: blank lines as "^\s*$"

On 07/07/2013 09:38, RAKESH wrote:

> We could also do it making use of the -0 777 option of perl where
> the whole file is slurped in, & then we proceed to
> chop off the leading & trailing blank lines, like as if chopping the front/tails of a carrot.
>
> perl -0777wple 's/\A\s+//ms;s/\s+\z//ms' yourfile

That has issues:

- the 'ms' modifiers are superfluous
- the starting whitespace of the first non-whitespace line is removed
- the newline after the last non-whitespace line is removed

-- 
Ruud