removing-trailing-blank-records-1.rex

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 2 /* The following pipeline reads the file: winston.txt and removes any trailing blank records.
 3 All the records are combined together to form a single record, trailing whitespace is then
 4 removed, finally, the combined record is split back into its constituent records. */
 5
 6 Address Rxpipe
 7
 8 'pipe < &installdrive:\&installpath\examples\input\winston.txt',
 9 '| strip', /* Remove whitespace. */
 10 '| specs /#/ 1 1-* n', /* Prefix the record with a placement hash. */
 11 '| join *', /* Combine all records. */
 12 '| strip trailing string /#/', /* Remove trailing placement chars. */
 13 '| split before str /#/',  /* Extract each record. */
 14 '| strip leading string /#/', /* Discard the placement char. */
 15 '| cons' /* Display on the console. */
 16
 17 Say 'Hit Enter to close..'
 18 Parse Pull
 19
 20 Exit 0
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