DEBLANK
Remove blank lines from a file

DEBLANK is a C++ program that makes a copy of a text file in which all blank lines have been removed.

A blank line contains no characters, or else nothing but blank characters.

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Usage:

deblank old.txt new.txt

reads the file old.txt and creates a copy new.txt which contains no blank lines.

Source Code:

• deblank.C, the source code;
• deblank.csh, commands to compile and link the code;

Examples and Tests:

• old.txt, a file with many blank lines;
• new.txt, a copy of the file, with no blank lines;

List of Routines:

• MAIN is the main program for DEBLANK.
• HANDLE handles a single file.
• S_LEN_TRIM returns the length of a string to the last nonblank.
• TIMESTAMP prints the current YMDHMS date as a time stamp.

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