You can do this in Editor if you use a character not in any of the original
text (such as a Tilde ("~").

Just enter the two lines:

   CQ 1,"~~~",ALL
   CQ "~~~","",ALL

It will delete any line that gets changed to all blanks.

You can also use FCOPY:

   FCOPY FROM=FROMFILE;TO=TOFILE;SUBSET=1,"                   ",EXCLUDE



"Bartram, Chris (Contractor)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in
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> 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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