Thank you everyone for the feedback.  I had some suspicion in the back of
my mind that doing an OCONV MCU on a full mv'd string was a Somewhat Bad
Idea, now I know why. :-)

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Woodward, Bob <bob_woodw...@k2sports.com>wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> Two times in my Unidata career I've had a problem like this where
> something doesn't work in a subroutine.  My work around, both times, was
> to add a simple line of code at the beginning of the program.  Usually
> just assigning a value to a new, unused, variable like JUNK="JUNK" is
> all it would take.  With it, the program would work flawlessly but if I
> took it back out, or commented it out, the odd behavior returned.
>
> BobW
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
> [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 4:26 PM
> To: U2 Users List
> Subject: [U2] Unidata 6.1.15 Oddity
>
> We have a customer who has a system that was rebooted a couple days ago.
>  Since then, and only in one certain subroutine, when doing an MCU
> conversion on a multivalued list, the ASCII 253 value marks are replaced
> with ASCII 221.  Understanding that the difference between an lower and
> upper case A is 32 in the ASCII table (97 - 65), it seems like Unidata
> is treating the delimiters like normal characters.  But again, this only
> happens in certain programs.  If I extract the lines of code that
> exhibit this behavior into its own program, the problem does not occur.
>
> Any ideas what might be causing this and only in one subroutine?  Both
> my test program and the real program with the problem are $BASICTYPE
> "U".
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