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". > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users