Re: Weird error
Re: Weird error
- Subject: Re: Weird error
- From: John Fowler <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:52:58 -0500
On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 12:41 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
Perl would make short work of your trimming operation. It's regular
expression syntax with anchors for start of line and end of line are
very close to what you want. I know. There's a learning curve.
I'm aware I can probably apply perl a lot in my applications and plan
to learn more about how but I have an application to maintain right now
and have to focus on fixing the "Weird error." Sorry I misspelled
"weird" in my original post.
I mention this only in case some deep system setting may have been
reset by perl, but I think otherwise this is absurd as an explanation
for what is going on. Even this is crazy, since the program ran fine
this morning and only started acting oddly around mid-day when no
programming or anything was going on. I run OS X 10.2.8.
I received and installed 10.2.8 just about the time your problems
began. Did you get it earlier than everyone else? Or did it install
itself while you were not watching?
My problem began Monday and I didn't upgrade to 10.2.8 until Monday
night. I have confirmed the problem persists after the upgrade.
What about the code that creates the data in the first place? Is it
producing old fashioned ASCII text or has it started using UTF-8 or
UTF16?
The code is created by a .asp process which I assume means Windows. It
is true that the server posted a notice saying they were upgrading
their software at midday Monday and conceivable that something changed
on the server side. But as one can see from the original post, when
"B" is the first letter in the string, "" gets placed first in the
stringList by "get every text item." The problem occurs before "ascii
number" is even called in my script. Because I can SEE a B, I think
get every text item should be able to place it first in the list of
text items. I think the problem is isolated in the get every text item
method and is specific to the source text. Is there something about
UTF-8 that would make the FIRST text item into hash?
John Fowler
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