blank lines consist of nothing but a RETURN char

so...

run the text of the member through a repeat loop

check 2 chars at a time
if those two chars = RETURN & RETURN then replace them with a single RETURN

hth

-Buzz

At 12:07 PM +0530 6/1/02, you wrote:
>dear list
>
>I'm developing a project which needs to read from external text files. I'm
>using the fileio xtra to carry out the operations.
>Every carraige return puts a blank line in the text cast member(i'm not
>using field so i can avoid the square boxes denoting the carraige returns).
>How do i avoid these extra blank lines in the member.
>
>Thanksalot in advance
>
>Sameer
>
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