QUAD Has /DEBLANK (range)         or DEBLANK @   -- for all.
 
QEDIT HAS /d "~"(pattern)         deletes all blank lines.

BT
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Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bartram, Chris (Contractor)
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 2:52 PM
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> Subject: [HP3000-L] deleteing blank lines in an ascii text file
> 
> 
> Having a brain lapse I think...
> 
> Any easy way (short of writing a script) to take an MPE file 
> (ASCII fixed
> record size- NOT bytestream) and delete all the blank lines in it?
> (resulting in an ascii non-bytestream file with only 
> non-blank records?)
> 
> Have basic MPE/iX, MPEX, and quad to work with.
> 
> I thought I remembered some wildcard (like %blank% ? ) that 
> you could use to
> delete a blank line in Editor or Quad, but can't find it in 
> either's help.
> 
> TIA,
> 
>  Chris Bartram
> 
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