if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then no_result ; fi
activity="compare output"
-diff -b -B -w $TEMPDIR/out-filtered - << EOF
+perl -pi -e 's/^\s*$//g' $TEMPDIR/out-filtered
+diff -b -w $TEMPDIR/out-filtered - << EOF |perl -e 's/^\s*$//g'
1.1 DATA LIST. Reading free-form data from the command file.
+--------+------+
|Variable|Format|