.STRIP - control stripping of line numbers on input.

Description:

".STRIP" is a predefined external variable with a default value of zero. If .STRIP is non-zero when a file is opened, the I/O routines will check to see if the first character of the file is numeric; if this is the case, the file is assumed to have line numbers at the beginning of each line. These line numbers will be stripped automatically each time a line is read in. The line numbers are kept and may be retrieved by a call to function LINUMB.

See Also:

expl b lib linumb

for a more more information about the value it returns.

expl b lib strip

for an alternate method of stripping line numbers.

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