Removing empty lines
 

It was required to remove empty lines using C program . Either to be
run like :

../nnoemptylines < textfile


or accept location of the file as a full path from the user dialog to
accept .

Re: Removing empty lines
 

In <dd3fce00-b8a2-4758-9184-dd2bb5fe89f8@e7g2000vbj.googlegroups.com> happytoday <ehabaziz2001@gmail.com> writes:

> It was required to remove empty lines using C program . Either to be
> run like :

> ./nnoemptylines < textfile

> or accept location of the file as a full path from the user dialog to
> accept .

You haven't actually asked a question. What do you want?

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Re: Removing empty lines
 

happytoday wrote:
> It was required to remove empty lines using C program . Either to be
> run like :
>
> ./nnoemptylines < textfile
>
>
> or accept location of the file as a full path from the user dialog to
> accept .

1 #include <unistd.h>
2 int main()
3 {
4 extern char **environ;
5 static char* const argv[3] = { "/bin/sed", "/^$/d", 0 };
6 return execve(argv[0], argv, environ);
7 }

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Re: Removing empty lines
 

happytoday wrote:
> It was required to remove empty lines using C program . Either to be
> run like :
>
> ./nnoemptylines < textfile

$ nl -ba nnoemptylines.c
1 #include <unistd.h>
2 int main()
3 {
4 extern char **environ;
5 static char* const argv[3] = { "/bin/sed", "/^$/d", 0 };
6 return execve(argv[0], argv, environ);
7 }

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Re: Removing empty lines
 

happytoday <ehabaziz2001@gmail.com> writes:
> It was required to remove empty lines using C program . Either to be
> run like :
>
> ./nnoemptylines < textfile
>
>
> or accept location of the file as a full path from the user dialog to
> accept .

One common answer to questions like this is to ask the questioner
to supply the e-mail address of his or her instructor, so we can
submit our solutions directly.

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Re: Removing empty lines
 

happytoday wrote:
> It was required to remove empty lines using C program . Either to be
> run like :
>
> ./nnoemptylines < textfile
>
>
> or accept location of the file as a full path from the user dialog to
> accept .

So? Do you have a question about C?

Re: Removing empty lines
 

"happytoday" wrote:

> It was required to remove empty lines using C program . Either to be
> run like :
>
> ./nnoemptylines < textfile
>
>
> or accept location of the file as a full path from the user dialog to
> accept .

It is extremely unlikely that you will get any actual help until you post
code of an attempt, however misguided, that you have made at solving the
problem. Lacking that, you will simply get abuse and misleading advice.

Re: Removing empty lines
 

On 7/21/2011 3:35 PM, happytoday wrote:
> It was required to remove empty lines using C program . Either to be
> run like :
>
> ./nnoemptylines< textfile
>
>
> or accept location of the file as a full path from the user dialog to
> accept .

One essential ingredient will be a means to determine whether
a particular line is or is not empty. Starting with the observation
that a string is empty if and only if all its substrings are empty,
you could use something like

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
int isEmpty(const char *string) {
int all_are_empty = 1; /* optimistic start */
for (size_t p = 0; p < strlen(string); ++p) {
for (size_t q = p; q < strlen(string); ++q) {
char *temp = malloc(q - p + 1);
if (temp == NULL) {
fputs("Out of memory!\n", stderr);
abort();
}
memcpy(temp, string + p, q - p);
temp[q - p] = '\0';
all_are_empty &= isEmpty(temp);
free(temp);
}
}
return all_are_empty;
}

This solution is efficient because it's recursive.

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Re: Removing empty lines
 

In article <98s08fFe8aU1@mid.individual.net>,
osmium <r124c4u102@comcast.net> wrote:
>"happytoday" wrote:
>
>> It was required to remove empty lines using C program . Either to be
>> run like :
>>
>> ./nnoemptylines < textfile
>>
>>
>> or accept location of the file as a full path from the user dialog to
>> accept .
>
>It is extremely unlikely that you will get any actual help until you post
>code of an attempt, however misguided, that you have made at solving the
>problem. Lacking that, you will simply get abuse and misleading advice.

And when you do post code, it (*) will just get worse.

(*) The abuse and misleading advice.

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Re: Removing empty lines
 

On Jul 21, 10:35*pm, happytoday <ehabaziz2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It was required to remove empty lines using C program . Either to be
> run like :
>
> ./nnoemptylines < textfile
>
> or accept location of the file as a full path from the user dialog to
> accept .
>
The spec is almost impossible.

../noemptylines < textfile redirects textfile to stdin. So if the
program is invoked thusly, it needs to read in lines from stdin, check
if they are non-blank, and then echo them to stdout. So far so good.
The problem is that
../noemptyfiles

should set up a dialogue with the user. So you want to print something
like
"Hello user, please enter the name of the file from which ypu wish to
remove blanks"
The user enters
textfile
"Thank you, do you wish to overwrite the file?"

etc

The problem is that there's no easy way to know whether stdin is
directed from a file or coming from a keyboard. That's deliberate. We
don't generally want programs making this distinction. I'm sure that
on your particular system there will besome operating call, probably
poorly documented, which you can make. But it's inappropriate and bad
practice to use it for a ultility program like a deblanker.

I'd throw the spec back, with this objection.

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