John.
Your code will not throw an error, but the engine will not know what field you are referencing. put word one of the selectedText of fld "yourFieldHere" into tFirstName There should be no issue with this, unless the names were imported from somewhere that already contained the extra chars Also, and this is a matter of style, I would always use "1" instead of the constant "one". Craig Newman -----Original Message----- From: JOHN PATTEN <johnpat...@me.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Thu, Oct 23, 2014 5:50 pm Subject: Extended ASCII Characters Showing Up Where Not Wanted... Hi All… I have a list of names in a field. John Doe Mary Jane etc. etc. When I do: put word one of the selectedText into tFirstname put word two of the selectedText into tLastname …and then try using the variables in an INSERT to SQL Lite it fails. It seems the put script above is inserting the extend ascii 168 character “¿” (upside down question mark). How do I clear those unwanted ascii characters out of my name variables? And why are they in there to begin with? It doesn’t seem like it should be just adding invisible characters to this process. I figured it out by adding the variable to a text editor and showing invisibles. Is this a bug? Thanks for any advice! John Patten SUSD _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
