Remove final CR LF character from a word document

[mcs1000]

I need to remove all the carriage return characters from a text file(using vb6). I have used a word automation to open the file and replace all the CR characters.

When I save the word file the last character in the file is a CR character.

How can I get rid of this character?

 

[SkipVought]

You ought to ask this question in Forum222.

Check out the vbCr, vbLf and vbCrLf constants.

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[TonyJollans]

You cannot remove the final paragraph mark - it is a placeholder for end of paragraph, end of section, end of document - in effect document information is 'held' in it.

Enjoy,
Tony

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[white605]

After removing what you can, can you put whats left into a variable and use the stringtofile command to store the file. That might result in a ctrl-Z as the end of file marker.
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[mcs1000]

The problem is I need to send the file to a bank and it has to correspond to their specs to be parsed by their software.

Is there an easy way to automatically open a text file, delete the last char then save?

 

[TonyJollans]

Why are you doing this in Word?

Enjoy,
Tony

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[webrabbit]

How large is this file? I have an old DOS-based text editor that can do this with a switch, but it cannot handle a really large document.