Apple

On Dec 5, 2009, at 1:13 PM, andy knasinski wrote:

We're doing some text manipulation and then writing it to disk. For one client, on an older PPC mac with 10.4.11 they are getting ASCII null characters between every character written to disk. If I look at the string being written, it's correct (no nulls) but on disk it has them.

What would cause this to happen!?

on write_to_file(this_data, target_file, append_data)
try
set the target_file to the target_file as text
set the open_target_file to ¬
open for access file target_file with write permission
if append_data is false then ¬
set eof of the open_target_file to 0
write this_data to the open_target_file starting at eof
close access the open_target_file
return true
on error
try
close access file target_file
end try
return false
end try
end write_to_file

I haven't the slightest idea, but try ...

write (this_data as text) to the open_target_file starting at eof

References:
	>Odd File Write Issue (From: andy knasinski <email@hidden>)