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Operating Systems Solaris finding & replacing blank rows/spaces in a file Post 78549 by Gerry405 on Wednesday 20th of July 2005 12:40:11 PM
Old 07-20-2005
finding & replacing blank rows/spaces in a file

Can anyone help me find and replace blank rows in a file with a numeric value (ie blankrow=someTxtOrNumValue), the file is over 500,000 rows long so it would need to be the quickest way as I'll need to do this for multiple files...I would be greatfull for any suggestions....thanks

sample file:
..............
J Smith
A Allan
B

fred
Tommy D
John Hall
.............
 

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SQLITE_NUM_ROWS(3)														SQLITE_NUM_ROWS(3)

sqlite_num_rows - Returns the number of rows in a buffered result set

SYNOPSIS
int sqlite_num_rows (resource $result) DESCRIPTION
Object oriented style (method): int SQLiteResult::numRows (void ) Returns the number of rows in the buffered $result set. PARAMETERS
o $result - The SQLite result resource. This parameter is not required when using the object-oriented method. Note This function cannot be used with unbuffered result handles. RETURN VALUES
Returns the number of rows, as an integer. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Procedural example <?php $db = sqlite_open('mysqlitedb'); $result = sqlite_query($db, "SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE name='John Doe'"); $rows = sqlite_num_rows($result); echo "Number of rows: $rows"; ?> Example #2 Object-oriented example <?php $db = new SQLiteDatabase('mysqlitedb'); $result = $db->query("SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE name='John Doe'"); $rows = $result->numRows(); echo "Number of rows: $rows"; ?> SEE ALSO
sqlite_changes(3), sqlite_query(3), sqlite_num_fields(3). PHP Documentation Group SQLITE_NUM_ROWS(3)
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