k, I didn't see you filehandle on the fwrite. I didn't know that you could write to the same file your reading? Interesting Thanx Aaron N Wagner Monitoring Systems and Network Tools CCO-Command Center Operations 804.515.6298 > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Robinson [mailto:kenrbnsn@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 5:05 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] Delete Blank Lines In A Text File > > Quoting "Wagner, Aaron" <aaron.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > That's nice but it doesn't fix the blank lines it just > skips them in the > > file parse. I think he wants to clean the file. If the > file gets big, > > he could take a performance hit skipping multiple lines. > > If you ran the script you would see that the output file doesn't have > the blank > lines. You can easily make the output file the same as the > input file, so you > end up with a cleaned file. > > I wrote & tested the script before I posted it. > > Ken > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP > Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx