How to get rid the new line

[William Park]

SiverFish <occeanlinux at linuxmail.org> wrote:
> Anyone tell me how to skip the empty line when you read through the file
> and copy the information in to the list(no empty line )

A bit off topic... but this question just cries out for 
    sed 's/^$/d'

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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