URL File extra spaces

[Scott Rossi]

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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