Remove Lines where first character is space

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jorgejulio
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Remove Lines where first character is space

Post by jorgejulio »

Hello,
I'm trying to use Perl for the first time. I have a 9400 line text file in which I need to remove lines that start with a space, i.e. a space in the first character position of the line.
Could someone send on the perl syntax to do this one?

Thanks much,
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Post by DataMystic Support »

Use a Remove\Matching lines filter, with a perl pattern of

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^ 
(That's a space after the ^)

Or use

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^[ ]
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