removing-leading-blank-records.rex

Pipelines v2.1

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 1
 2 /* The following pipeline displays the file: winston.txt, on the console. The pipeline does
 3 not display the leading blank lines; the FROMLABEL stage only begins selecting records
 4 once a non-blank record has been read. */
 5
 6 Address Rxpipe
 7
 8 'pipe < &installdrive:\&installpath\examples\input\winston.txt',
 9 '| take 13', /* Select only the first 13 records. */
 10  /* Start reading from the first non-blank record. */,
 11 '| fromlabel zone(11-*)',
 12 '| cons' /* Display on the console. */
 13
 14 Say 'Hit Enter to close..'
 15 Parse Pull
 16
 17 Exit 0
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Console output

 
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 1 It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
 2 Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile
 3 wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not
 4 quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
 5
 6 The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a
 7 coloured poster, too large for indoor display, has been tacked to the wall. It
 8 depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man
 9 about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features.
 10 Winston made for the stairs.
 11 Hit Enter to close..