replacing blank lines in my .txt data file

[diazhenrique]

Hi all,

How could I substitute the blank lines in my .txt data file. It has
many empty lines between groups of "text". In truth, the file is not a
well-formated one, in strict sense. I would like to change blank lines
for "special caracter", for example "$". I supose this is easy to do,
but is taking my time in such a way that I'm thinking about to do
manually.

"Things that only a begginer can't see, you know"

Thanks a lot.

[Victor Bazarov]

<di**********@g mail.comwrote.. .

How could I substitute the blank lines in my .txt data file.

Is that a question.

It has
many empty lines between groups of "text". In truth, the file is not a
well-formated one, in strict sense. I would like to change blank lines
for "special caracter", for example "$". I supose this is easy to do,
but is taking my time in such a way that I'm thinking about to do
manually.

Do them "manually". Writing a special program for that while there are
things around like awk, or sed, or good text editors, is a waste of time.

"Things that only a begginer can't see, you know"

V
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[Luka Djigas]

On 21 Aug 2006 13:45:14 -0700, di**********@gm ail.com wrote:

>Hi all,

How could I substitute the blank lines in my .txt data file. It has
many empty lines between groups of "text". In truth, the file is not a
well-formated one, in strict sense. I would like to change blank lines
for "special caracter", for example "$". I supose this is easy to do,
but is taking my time in such a way that I'm thinking about to do
manually.

"Things that only a begginer can't see, you know"

Thanks a lot.

Well, if it's not a part of some greater scheme :) I would do that
using an external program of some kind. For example Notepad2
(very nice portable replacement for notepad, in 1 exe file) has a
fuction that does just that.

adieu
ldigas