Thank you, Jim, Peter, and John, for your help! Turns out it is a "non-break
space". No idea how it got there (the file is from somebody else). Thanks to
Excel, I guess.
Tao
>________________________________
> From: John <j...@surewest.net>
>To: r-help@r-project.org
>Cc: "Shi, Tao" <shida...@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:17 PM
>Subject: Re: [R] what's this character?
>
>On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:44:59 -0800 (PST)
>"Shi, Tao" <shida...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I've encounter this problem (see below). I know it's particularly
>> R-related and it's easy to get by but it still bothers me a lot.
>>
>>
>> It looks the last character of "N.C. " is a space to me, but it's
>> clearly not. Can someone tell me a way to figure out what character
>> is in the last position.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Tao
>
>In the sample you provide it is HEX 20 which is ASCII for "space." So
>either, it really is a space, or it didn't copy in your message. I
>would suggest copying the string and pasting into a hex editor.
>
>Doing that with the "N.C. " from your message yields:
>
>22 4E 2E 43 2E 20 22
>
>The "20" is the ASCII "space" character. Just possibly, if you are
>using a file saved in a unicode format, it could be a "no-break space"
>- Unicode point U+00A0, or UTF-8 "c2 a0". Good luck.
>
>JWDougherty
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