When is 10 really 13?

[Björnke von Gierke]

There's no "liking". :P

As explained, when using "file", LC assumes it's a text file, and that you want conversions to happen. The same goes for fields. But in fact I think there's only a case where mactoiso() get transformed when it's in a field, and that is when you open a stack in windows/linux that was last saved on a mac (and vice versa for isotomac()). However I think it doesn't change line endings in such a case.

So it's very easy: If you want text unchanged by automatisms in LC, and for it to retain it's characteristic, then don't store it in a field, and don't use "file:" for urls, simply use "binfile:" instead.


On 05.12.2013, at 15:40, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> So, aside from this situtation, when else will <CR> be <LF> in the LC
> universe?  Like I said, I know LC likes <LF>, but if it's substituting one
> for another, that's a problem.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Thierry Douez <th.douez at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi MIke,
>> 
>> Opening your text file in *binary" mode :  "binfile:whatever"
>> then with the replace() function , get rid of what you don't want...
>> 
>> Does that help ?
>> 
>> Thierry
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 2013/12/5 Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
>> 
>>> I know that LC has this affinity for <LF> (ascii 10) instead of <CR>
>> (ascii
>>> 13), but in this case it's going to be a problem.
>>> 
>>> I am trying to parse a text file that is output from another system.
>> When
>>> LC reads the file, it automatically interprets all the <CR>'s as <LF>'s.
>>> 
>>> Thinking I was batty, I grabbed several other development tools that I
>>> use.  Each and every one of them said that what LC said was an <LF> was
>>> really a <CR>, so just to be sure I went to the source of the file, and
>>> sure enough it is putting out <CR>.  Reading further through the code, it
>>> appears that there are cases where both <CR> and <LF> are going to be
>>> output, and the differences are significant to properly handling the
>> data.
>>> 
>>> SO, do we have a way of dealing with this that I am not aware of?
>>> 
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