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Removing trailing blank records (method 1) |
Pipelines v1.6 |
.* Example by TenFiftyTwo(c). |
.* The following pipeline reads the file: example.txt and removes any trailing blank records..* All the records are combined together to form a single record, trailing whitespace is then removed,.* finally, the combined record is split back into its constituent records. pipe (endchar ?)
< &installdrive:\&installpath\Examples\Input\example.txt .* Input file. | strip .* Remove whitespace. | specs /#/ 1 1-* n .* Prefix the record with a placement hash. | join * .* Combine all records. | strip trailing string /#/ .* Remove trailing placement chars. | split before str /#/ .* Extract each record. | strip leading string /#/ .* Discard the placement char. | cons .* Display on the console.