title: Perl adding line to begininning
body: <p>I have a perl script I am writing to parse a file based on regex. The problem is the file always starts with a new line. When I turn on hidden chars in vi it shows up as a "$" (this is vi on cygwin). is there a way I can use regex to remove them? I tried </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>s/\n//g</p>
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  <p>But that did not seem to work.</p>