Stripping Carriage Return / Line Feed from text file

[Scott Walker]

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ial.com] On Behalf Of Jay R. Ashworth
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:33 PM
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Subject: Re: Stripping Carriage Return / Line Feed from text file


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:30:22AM -0500, Mike Schwartz wrote:
> Quoting Scott Walker (Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:27:13 -0400):
> > I want to use a text file as an alien file.
> >
> > It's fixed length fields but has a carriage return/line feed between

> > each
> record.
> >
> > Can someone remind me of the easiest way to strip the 0d0a from 
> > these
> records?
> 
>     Rather than bothering to strip the CR/LF off, why don't you just 
> overlay a "non-filePro file" map over the file?

He *did* say "alien file", Mike.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
-- 


What's the correct terminology for it "alien file" or "non-filePro
file"?

I know ddefine says "Non-filePro" file but I could have sworn I've heard
it referred to as an "alien file".

Actually I vote for "external data file".

Regards,

Scott