Dear Fideric, Perl certainly allowed me to solve the problem, but it would have been nice to do it with openoffice. I am not certain that I understand your note. Were you able to get openoffice to ignore nulls at the end of a text file?
-- Greg Ennis PoMec Corporation www.PoMec.Net We can do it automatically, as much as manually, as much as you. Maybe perl will be fun to you. 2014/1/20 Gregory P. Ennis <po...@pomec.net> > Everyone, > > I am using openoffice writer to open up a text file that is being > created with a null octal \000\ as the end of file marker. When > openoffice opens the file it replaces the null with a "#" character. > > The software I am using to create the text file is unable to create the > text file without a null at the end of the file. Is there a way to get > openoffice to ignore the null and not translate the null into a "#" > > Thanks for your help!!! > > Greg Ennis > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > I could not figure out how to get openoffice to ignore the null, but I > did figure out a fix for the problem. I wrote a perl script that is > activated before openoffice that removes the null at the end of the text > file before it passes the file to openoffice. > > However, if there is a way for openoffice to do this I would be > interested in your comments. > > Greg Ennis > > > > ------------------------------------------- > List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > ------------------------------------------- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
