Identifying empty lines of text

[Phil Davis]

I wonder if the 202 value would disappear if you did this:

    put textDecode(the clipboarddata["text"], "utf8") into field 1

I don't know the answer, just putting it out there.

Phil Davis


On 1/12/18 4:48 PM, David Epstein via use-livecode wrote:
> I use “the number of words in myString = 0” to test whether a line of text appears empty, since I want a line with only space characters to be understood as empty.
> But a line of text I pasted from elsewhere contained an invisible character whose charToNum value is 202, and this was counted as a word by my script.
> Is there a better way to test for a line of text that has no visible characters?
> Many thanks.
>
> David Epstein
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