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Old 06-23-2009
dinesh1985 dinesh1985 is offline
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Example

input file
First Name - position from 1-5
Last Name- position 6-10
Age-Position 11-12
Say above is the format of input file.
Example:
DINESKUMAR21
SACHISHAH 23
23
GURUNTARIM22

In the above example,in the 3 rd record Name is missing. Now while reading the file line by line,I want to delete the 3 rd line during validation.

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for the third line blankspaces will be present before 23