Hi Monks, Hoping someone could enlighen me. I have a file containing lines which consists of filenames and directories. I need to strip all empty directory entries in this file. Below is an example of the file contents: Filname is filelist.txt 
:BOF
/peter/john/lilly.pdf
/john/peter/jill.pdf
/jimmy/gill/
/wilbur/yankee/
/lola/riley/jibmo.txt
/rolly/polly/quebe.lst
:EOF

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I'm trying in vain to remove all lines ending with the / char. Note there could be any number of lines ending with / and they could be anywhere in the file. Any wisdom will be greatly appreciated.

In reply to remove lines from file ending with / char by msx

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