Hi Juergen, try this match("^\s$")..... may be that works ^ means begin of line \s space/newline/tab $ end of line greetings Stefan -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Juergen Wolf [mailto:wolf@idmt.fhg.de] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. März 2004 16:52 An: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu Betreff: [syslog-ng]Matching Empty Syslog Lines Hoi, I get loads of empty lines in my syslog like: Mar 11 16:38:29 il062 dm: Mar 11 16:38:35 il062 sshd: Mar 11 16:37:19 il062 alsa: So I am looking for a Match-Expression to omit these lines. Unfortunately match("^$") and match("\A\z") did no good at all. Any idea how to get rid of these lines? Regards, Juergen -- email: wolf@idmt.fhg.de gilb: Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Digitale Medientechnologie IDMT 98693 Ilmenau, Helmholtzring 1 Tel.: +49 3677 69-4882 Fax: +49 3677 69-4399 _______________________________________________ syslog-ng maillist - syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng Frequently asked questions at http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html