I just looked at the file with vi and the character is a combination circumflex backslash. I'll give it a shot trying to prevent them with regex.
"Timothy Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message C0FD5BECE2F0C84EAA97D7300A500D50046DC9E4@SMILEY">news:C0FD5BECE2F0C84EAA97D7300A500D50046DC9E4@SMILEY... > > You should pick up a freeware hex editor (there are a few of them on the > net, I've been using xvi32) and find out what the hex value of the > non-printable characters are, then you can create a regex to strip them out. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 9:06 AM > To: Larry Steinberg; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: getting rid of box > > > How are you creating the report? > > If you are using some sort of print statement, what does it look like? > > Where is the data coming from? > > The boxes are non-printing characters of some sort. If you know that you > are only going to use a small set of printable characters, you could > probably create a regex that would delete all of the other characters from > your strings. > > > /\/\ark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Steinberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 8:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: getting rid of box > > > I have these coming up when creating a report: > > ma, BC: 1 > bost, : 1 > Montroyal, QC: 1 > waltam, MA: 1 > Quebec, QC: 1 > booger, MA: 1 > Franklinxxx, MA: 1 > BOSTI, MA: 1 > > How do I rid the report of these boxes? > > -- > -Larry > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
