but there's a null character, and CF uses null terminated strings, so it
sees that and thinks the string is done.
At least, that's my best guess.
I've never found a way to fix this in CF, unfortunately.
--Ben
Stephenie Hamilton wrote:
> I am trying to use CFFILE to parse a text file, put the contents in a
> var and then insert that into a db.
>
> However, the file only gets parsed halfway through the first line. I
> couldn't at first figure out why it would stop. If I opened the file
> in notepad, added a space, then deleted the space, the file would
> then parse correctly.
>
> I then opened the file in wordpad and discovered that where the
> parsing stops there is a little square that doesn't show up in
> notepad, assuming some type of special character or something, but I
> have no idea what.
> If I manually delete the little square, then it parses fine (until it
> runs into the one on the next line etc)...
>
> is there any way to get past this? I am beating my head against the
> wall and can no longer even see straight...
>
> tia
> Stephenie
>
>
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