C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > Does anyone have a quick way to trim extra lines from a text file? > > I have an app that uploads a text file and processes it as a TSV file, but > some users are exporting from MS Access, which is adding some extra line > feeds to the end. Any suggestions?
Read it, parse it, overwrite it. Probably the best way to parse it would be a regular expression like: <cfset text=REReplaceNoCase(text,"(^.*[^[:space:]])[[:space:]]*$","\1")> (I believe linefeeds are in the space clase, could be control as well in which case you need to change accordingly.) Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists