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Stripper

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Stripper is an XCMD which I had to write to get around the inanities of Cricket Graph 1.0 and 1.1.  Cricket Graph does not deal well with importing numbers, especially when blanks are involved.  Unfortunately FORTRAN and PASCAL like to put blanks in their output.  Hence this XCMD.  Stripper takes a text file and replaces all strings of one or more blanks by a single tab (except blanks leading a line which it deletes).  I was able to do this in Hypertalk but the XCMD is a bit quicker.  


Alex McKale
Dept. of Physics
OSU
Corvallis, OR 97331

••Note from Steve Drazga, Editor DevStack
I would like to publicly thank Alex for sending in this contribution & supporting the Developer Stack.  It is this kind of support that will keep the Developer Stack alive & thriving.  

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Syntax:

Stripper <"InputFile">,<"OutputFile">

The first parameter is the full pathname to the input file.

The second parameter is the full pathname to the output file.



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