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Removing trailing blank records (method 2) |
Pipelines v1.6 |
.* Example by TenFiftyTwo(c). |
.* The following pipeline reads the file: example.txt and removes any trailing blank records..* The pipeline uses two sort stages, the first; to reverse the entire file and the second, to.* reorder the file once the leading blank records have been discarded. pipe < &installdrive:\&installpath\Examples\Input\example.txt .* Read input file.
| strip trailing .* Strip off whitespace. | specs recno 1 1-* n .* Insert record number in column 1. | sort 1-10 d .* Sort records in descending order. | fromlabel zone(11-*) pattern /?*/ .* Discard blank records. | sort 1-10 .* Sort records back into ascending order. | specs 11-* 1 .* Remove the column number. | cons .* Display on the console.