Yes. #13#13 is not standard... Howie
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 12:14 PM Subject: RE: Text documents - funny characters > isn't it CRLF, or "#CHR(13)##CHR(10)#"? > > Jerry Johnson > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/20/01 11:52AM >>> > Kay, You may be creating a false control charachter. > On a pc, return breaks are "#CHR(10)##CHR(13)#", not just #CHR(13)#. > DRE > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kay Smoljak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 11:47 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Text documents - funny characters > > > Hi all, > > I have text passages that were entered through a web-based interface > using cf_htmlarea_lite. This tag uses the MS dhtml edit thingy, so it > formats everything with copious amounts of pointless markup. > > I am pulling this info from the database, and stripping the html tags > out to send it an email as a text attachment. To get rid of the html, I > am using: > > <cfset body = ReReplaceNoCase(myQuery.body,"<[^>]*>","","ALL")> > > For some reason there tends to be non-breaking spaces where there > should > be line breaks, so I then do: > > <cfset body = ReplaceNoCase(body," ","#chr(13)#","ALL")> > > If I open the resulting file in Notepad, I get strange square > characters > between some of the words. If I paste the text from Notepad into > Studio, > resave it, and open again in Notepad, the square characters are not > there. > > What's the story? Any idea what could be causing this? More to the > point, any idea how to fix it? > > Regards, > Kay. > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
