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Re: Bad Characters


  • Subject: Re: Bad Characters
  • From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:45:23 -0500

Christopher Nebel wrote:
It looks like all non-printing control characters compare as equal. Try the ASCII control range for comparison. Is this of practical concern, or are you just poking around?

It started out as a practical concern, trying to find a reason for a bug in my application.
Turns out this isn't the cause of my bug, so I guess I have degenerated into poking around.

A follow-up ...
This discussion started with an email from a user of my software who reported problem. I couldn't fix his problem, but found the Bad Characters bug while trying. So, I released a new version in which every occurrence of


	string = ""

was replaced with

	length of string = 0

just in case there was a problem.

I informed User of the new version and shortly thereafter received a reply reporting that his problem had been fixed. It seems the Bad Character bug has returned to the realm of "practical concern".

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