How to skip a blank  row in File Sender Adapter - while mapping ?

Hi friends ,
                 While i am reading a test file it contains some Blank Lines i need to skip that blank lines and i have to read only full line .
                    Do i need to give any configuration in File Sender Adapter ?
                    Expecting your reply asap
Best Regards .,
V.Rangarajan

<i>Hi friends ,
While i am reading a test file it contains some Blank Lines i need to skip that blank lines and i have to read only full line .
Do i need to give any configuration in File Sender Adapter ?</i>
>>>>
currently the only option that the file adapter provides you is to skip lines at the starting of the file but not in the middle of the file.
in case these blank lines are at the starting of the file then you can use the following option
<i>Under Document Offset, specify the number of lines that are to be ignored at the beginning of the document.
This enables you to skip comment lines or column names during processing. If you do not make an entry, the default value is zero lines.</i>
Ref: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/2c/181077dd7d6b4ea6a8029b20bf7e55/content.htm
else the best way would be to handle the same in your mapping (test if the xml node is empty, in tht case do not map it) or use a module to delete all blank lines in the file.

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