This is really dumb, but have you tried reading as binary (binfile) instead of
file? I recently found that LiveCode was not seeing returns in text files
saved out of LiveCode, and opening using binfile seems to have solved my issue
(though don't know why).
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design
On Mar 9, 2013, at 6:45 AM, Thomas McGrath III <mcgra...@mac.com> wrote:
> I am getting back an extra space between each character when getting the
> contents of a file. Any ideas how this is happening? Why? How to fix it?
>
>
> The text in the file is:
> 09-03-2013 09:01:16 F3 F3 F3
>
> and the text I am getting back with extra spaces:
> 0 9 - 0 3 - 2 0 1 3 0 9 : 0 1 : 1 6 F 3 F 3 F 3
>
> Here is the code:
>
> function TAGetEvent
> put URL ("file:" & (specialFolderPath("Support") & slash &
> "KeyTrapper" & slash & "Events.txt")) into tFile
> return tFile
> end TAGetEvent
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
> -- Tom McGrath III
> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
> mcgra...@mac.com
>
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