That sequence is incorrect - it should be chr(13) chr(10) Howie
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kay Smoljak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:54 PM Subject: Re: Text documents - funny characters > Hmmm... > > I was using chr(10) chr(13) at first, but that was giving me two funny > squares in Notepad. Someone here suggested that Notepad has trouble with > that character sequence and only requires the carriage return. If I take > them both out I get no funny characters, but no line breaks either :) It > only seems to happen in Notepad, which is what most of the users will > probably be using. Argh... > > K. > > "Andre Turrettini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > Kay, You may be creating a false control charachter. > > On a pc, return breaks are "#CHR(10)##CHR(13)#", not just #CHR(13)#. > > DRE > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kay Smoljak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 11:47 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Text documents - funny characters > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have text passages that were entered through a web-based interface > > using cf_htmlarea_lite. This tag uses the MS dhtml edit thingy, so it > > formats everything with copious amounts of pointless markup. > > > > I am pulling this info from the database, and stripping the html tags > > out to send it an email as a text attachment. To get rid of the html, > > I am using: > > > > <cfset body = ReReplaceNoCase(myQuery.body,"<[^>]*>","","ALL")> > > > > For some reason there tends to be non-breaking spaces where there > > should > > be line breaks, so I then do: > > > > <cfset body = ReplaceNoCase(body," ","#chr(13)#","ALL")> > > > > If I open the resulting file in Notepad, I get strange square > > characters > > between some of the words. If I paste the text from Notepad into > > Studio, > > resave it, and open again in Notepad, the square characters are not > > there. > > > > What's the story? Any idea what could be causing this? More to the > > point, any idea how to fix it? > > > > Regards, > > Kay. > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Why Share? Dedicated Win 2000 Server · PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionc FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
