I just looked at the file with vi and the character is a combination
circumflex backslash. I'll give it a shot trying to prevent them with regex.
"Timothy Johnson" <tjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> You should pick up a freeware hex editor (there are a few of them on the
> net, I've been using xvi32) and find out what the hex value of the
> non-printable characters are, then you can create a regex to strip them
out.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Anderson [mailto:manderson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 9:06 AM
> To: Larry Steinberg; beginners@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: getting rid of box
>
>
> How are you creating the report?
>
> If you are using some sort of print statement, what does it look like?
>
> Where is the data coming from?
>
> The boxes are non-printing characters of some sort. If you know that you
> are only going to use a small set of printable characters, you could
> probably create a regex that would delete all of the other characters from
> your strings.
>
>
> /\/\ark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Steinberg [mailto:larry.steinberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 8:58 AM
> To: beginners@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: getting rid of box
>
>
> I have these coming up when creating a report:
>
> ma, BC: 1
> bost, : 1
> Montroyal, QC: 1
> waltam, MA: 1
> Quebec, QC: 1
> booger, MA: 1
> Franklinxxx, MA: 1
> BOSTI, MA: 1
>
> How do I rid the report of these boxes?
>
> --
> -Larry
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