Re: Character Types

2002-04-17 Thread drieux
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

RE: Character Types

2002-04-17 Thread Timothy Johnson
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

RE: Character Types

2002-04-17 Thread Mark Anderson
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. /\/\ark -Original Message- From: Scott Lutz [mailto:[EMAI