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[Kevin D. Clark]

"Kenneth E. Lussier" <ken.lussier at zuken.com> writes:

> I need to remove the blank lines before "givenName" and
> "telephoneNumber".

Ask and ye shall receive:

  perl -0777 -pe 's/\n[ \t]*\n(givenName|telephoneNumber)/\n$1/sg;'


I can think of other ways to do this too but this is really natural.

Regards,

--kevin
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