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FYI - alines() with blank string
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01142943
Message ID:
01142949
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7
>Hi everybody,
>
>lcTitle = ""
>lnLines = alines(laLines, m.lcTitle)
>
>lnLines = 1
>
>I would expect it to return 0. Anyway, once I found this out I put a special handling for empty cases.

ALINES has flag parameter. Default flag is "Removes leading and trailing spaces from lines, or for Varbinary and Blob values, removes trailing zeroes (0) instead of spaces" not remove empty lines. If you want to remove empty lines:
lcTitle = ""
lnLines = alines(laLines, m.lcTitle,4)
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