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Remove Lines where first character is space

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:40 am
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,
j2

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:15 am
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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^[ ]