On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 05:05 , Scott Lutz wrote:
> I am trying to do a split on a string with what looks like square boxes
> separating the data.
is this something that you are getting from a 'unicode' site?
The normal case is that it is something in the non-printable
section of 8-bi
If I had to guess, I'd say you're splitting a UNIX file, and the "square
boxes" are the UNIX endline characters. To be sure, though, the best way
would be to download a freeware hex editor(there's loads of them on the
Internet, but I've been using one called XVI32). Then you can eliminate the
l
Those are likely non-printable characters in whatever font you are using.
Use substr and ord to get the octal value and then split on it.
Double check to make sure they are all the same character.
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