(a) there is more than one blank line at the end of the file => the one-liner removes all those blank lines at eof
(b) there is one or more than one blank line before the end of the file => the one-liner removes all those blank lines wherever they are before eof
(c) the lines refered to in (a) and (b) have zero or more whitespaces
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Last edited by durden_tyler; 09-09-2010 at 02:19 PM..
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Kind regards
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