Auto-remove blank lines in a list field

[Brad Allen]

There are several ways to delete blank lines.

Here's the most straightforward:

put the number of lines in myText into lineCount
repeat with i = lineCount down to 1
   if line i of myText is empty then delete line i of myText
end repeat

Here's another way, probably faster for large amounts of text, but 
isn't very elegant:

   repeat until offset(return & return,myText) = 0
      replace return & return with return in myText
   end repeat
   if line 1 of myText is empty then delete line 1 of myText


The most elegant way to do it is probably using the replaceText 
command, which may be powerful enough to accomplish this task without 
even using a repeat loop. This is an advanced command which makes use 
of regular expression technology for text pattern matching. (Maybe 
somebody on this list knows a regular expression to identify an 
arbitrary number of consecutive blank lines...).

Whichever method you choose, you might consider enclosing your code 
in a function, as in

function stripBlankLines inputText
   <<code for stripping blank lines, put the cleaned up text into myVariable>>
   return myVariable
end stripBlankLines

This will make it easily reusable throughout your project.

>Hello all,
>
>I have a list field and I am trying to write a script
>that upon "closeField" (or something appropriate),
>will automatically check each line in the field and
>remove/delete any blank lines in the list field; I
>have tried this a ton of different ways using
>variations of the repeat command, but have not been
>able to make it work.
>
>Thanks
>
>Steve
>
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