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Old 05-07-2008
dhanamurthy dhanamurthy is offline
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Removing Blank Lines
Hi
i have the below lines from a file

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PRGRP450800PERSONAL SOAP AND BATH ADDITIV 7036
PRGRP450800PERSONAL SOAP AND BATH ADDITIV 7036
PRGRP450800PERSONAL SOAP AND BATH ADDITIV 7036
PRGRP450800PERSONAL SOAP AND BATH ADDITIV 7036
PRGRP450800PERSONAL SOAP AND BATH ADDITIV 7036
7538
7538
7538
PRGRP450800PERSONAL SOAP AND BATH ADDITIV 7036
PRGRP450800PERSONAL SOAP AND BATH ADDITIV 7036
PRGRP450800PERSONAL SOAP AND BATH ADDITIV 7036



PRGRP450800PERSONAL SOAP AND BATH ADDITIV 7036
PRGRP450800PERSONAL SOAP AND BATH ADDITIV 7036
PRGRP450800PERSONAL SOAP AND BATH ADDITIV 7036

I want to remove the BLANK lines from this file. I am reading a file of size atleast 1 GB.

So kindly let me know which would be the best way to quickly reduce the processing time when removing the blanks.

If you can give me an example that would also be fine.

Regards
Dhana