Delete lines in files (text files)

[Devin Asay]

On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Till Bandi wrote:

> Hi all
>
> is there a way to delete lines in a text file from Revoution? - i  
> did not see how this can be done but probably it is very simple.

Till,

You have to read it in then write it back out. You can do it in one  
line like this (assume you want to delete the first line):

put line 2 to -1 of url "file:/path/to/file.txt" into url "file:/path/ 
to/file.txt"

Just modify the range of lines you want to have in the final file.

HTH

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University