In QUAD, you can lookup records like this,
l a e" "(1/1)

It means list all except " " in columns from 1 to 1.



Ron Horner
HP3000 Systems Administrator
JCPenney Logistics
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bartram, Chris (Contractor)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 1:51 PM
Subject: 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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