URL File extra spaces

[Thomas McGrath III]

Scott,

After changing to binfile it loads without the extra spaces. But then I run into other issues using contains etc. on the returned text.

So I had to come up with a bit of code to strip out what I need etc. But I think It must be the UTF issue.

Tom
-- Tom McGrath III
http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
mcgrath3 at mac.com

On Mar 9, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

> This is really dumb, but have you tried reading as binary (binfile) instead of file?  I recently found that LiveCode was not seeing returns in text files saved out of LiveCode, and opening using binfile seems to have solved my issue (though don't know why).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> On Mar 9, 2013, at 6:45 AM, Thomas McGrath III <mcgrath3 at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am getting back an extra space between each character when getting the contents of a file. Any ideas how this is happening? Why? How to fix it?
>> 
>> 
>> The text in the file is:
>> 09-03-2013 09:01:16 F3 F3 F3 
>> 
>> and the text I am getting back with extra spaces:
>> 0 9 - 0 3 - 2 0 1 3   0 9 : 0 1 : 1 6   F 3   F 3   F 3
>> 
>> Here is the code:
>> 
>> function TAGetEvent
>>         put URL  ("file:" & (specialFolderPath("Support") & slash & "KeyTrapper" & slash & "Events.txt")) into tFile
>>         return  tFile
>> end TAGetEvent
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
>> -- Tom McGrath III
>> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
>> mcgrath3 at mac.com
>> 
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