Kevin,
        Here's a CI command file to do what you want. It's not very
efficient and a record containing a doube quote (") will screw it up. It
will copy from the old file containing the CR/LF and write to a new
temporary file.

Execute it like this;
StripCR NewFile < OldFile

StripCr Command File follows
------------------------------------------
Parm NewFile
Continue
Purge !NewFile,Temp > $Null
While True
   ErrClear
   Continue
   Input Name=Buffer > $Null
   if CIError<>0 Then
      Return
   Endif
   SetVar n Pos(Chr(13),"!Buffer")
   If n>0 Then
      SetVar n n - 1
      SetVar Buffer Str("!Buffer",1,n)
   EndIf
   Echo !Buffer >> !NewFile
EndWhile

Hope this works for you
John Zoltak
North American Mfg Co


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin J. Mullins [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 1:10 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      [HP3000-L] Stripping CR/LF characters in ASCII file
>
> We have an ASCII file that contains a carriage return and line feed
> character as a delimiter at the end of the data contained in each
> record
> following by trailing spaces to fill out the record.
>
> Looking for an easy way to strip out these two characters from each
> record.
> Was hoping to use EDITOR and MPEX to accomplish this but have not
> found a
> solution.  Contacted VESOFT for possible answers but they did not
> manage to
> come up with anything within the past day.
>
> Any ideas how this can be done fairly simply?  We could create a quick
> program to do this but really are looking for other options.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.
> Kevin
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