asked on 9/2/2011

PHP Regular Expression Help. Delete lines with nothing but spaces.

I'm looking for a regex to delete lines that only have spaces or tabs on them, and NOT delete all line feeds. So a line with just a \n or \r would stay, but spaces\tabs and a \n or \r would be deleted

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Terry Woods

9/3/2011

Ray Paseur

9/3/2011

Please post your test data set, thanks.

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