JuliaLang/julia — pull request #8178 by tanmaykm (2014-08-28 20:52:36+00:00)
Title: handling blank lines in readdlm

This fixes #8171 by handling blank lines between rows of the input.

Also introduces a `skipblanks` option to ignore blank lines in the input. It is set to `true` by default to be consistent with `readtable` from `DataFrames`. It will break code that depended on the previous behavior of returning a row of empty strings. But such instances should be rare.