1.4 Blank lines

Various programming styles use blank lines in different places. indent has a number of options to insert or delete blank lines in specific places.

The ‘-bad’ option causes indent to force a blank line after every block of declarations. The ‘-nbad’ option causes indent not to force such blank lines.

The ‘-bap’ option forces a blank line after every procedure body. The ‘-nbap’ option forces no such blank line.

The ‘-bbb’ option forces a blank line before every boxed comment (See section Comments.) The ‘-nbbb’ option does not force such blank lines.

The ‘-sob’ option causes indent to swallow optional blank lines (that is, any optional blank lines present in the input will be removed from the output). If the ‘-nsob’ is specified, any blank lines present in the input file will be copied to the output file.

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