On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:11 AM, David Epstein <dfepst...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Are there other characters that are always or sometimes invisible that > cause the same problem? And what is a remedy? > Many thanks. > In the multi-line msg box: put empty into msg repeat with x = 0 to 255 put x & " = " & numToChar(x) & cr after msg end repeat On all English OSs the first 32 should be blank. On all English OSs the chars up to 127 should be identical. On all English OSs char 127 should be 'intentionally blank'. On different OS the chars vary for chars 128 to 255. On OS X char 202 is also 'intentionally blank' - no idea for Win or Linux. ASCII 32 is a space, those lower than 32 may or may not cause the same problem you are seeing. My suggested solution is where ever the data originally came from, prior to inputting into your fields, variables or custom properties, it should be tested to confirm that the data only contains ASCII chars 48 to 57 (unless you include thousand separators and or decimal points, in which case you'd have to include their ASCII equivalents as well). HTH _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode