is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?

[Mark Willson]

Gary Kline wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:06:51AM +0100, Mark Willson wrote:
>> The following version should do what you want:
>>
>> BEGIN {
>>     ncnt = 0
>>     prev = "BOF"
>> }
>> /^ *$/ {
>> 	ncnt++;
>> 	if (ncnt > 3) {
>> 		print "Emphasis at " NR ": " prev;
>> 		prev = "-multiple-"
>> 		ncnt = 0;
>> 	}
>> 	next;
>> }
>>        {ncnt = 0; prev = $0}
>>
>> -mark
> 
> 
> 	It does! outstanding....
> 
> 	thanks again,
> 
> 	gary
> 
Gary,

No problem.  Glad I could help.

-mark