You are probably reading a PC text on a Mac. PC uses both CR and LF
to mark the end of a line. Mac uses only CR, so the LF will be shown
as an 'unprintable character' - a box.
You need to run the contents of your textData through a Find &
Replace routine to delete the LFs.
Here's a fast and nice general F&R that I wrote a while ago (watch
out for email introduced line breaks in the source!):
-----------------
on fAndR sourceText, findChar, replacement -- Fast F&R hack
lenFindChar = length(findChar)
lenSource = length(sourceText)
repeat while TRUE
theOffset = offset(findChar, sourceText)
if NOT theOffset then exit repeat -- no more occurencies
part1 = sourceText
delete char theOffset to lenSource of part1 -- snip off the end
sourceText = part1 & replacement & (char theOffset + lenFindChar
to lenSource of sourceText)
end repeat
strippedText = sourceText
return strippedText
end
-----------------
sourceText is your 'textData' string
findChar is the 'box character'
replacement is ""
-Andreas
>Hi All,
>
>I am reading a text file using File I/o. When i read it at the
>beginning of each new line i am getting a Box type character. How
>can i remove it before placing it in a field. I know it is something
>to do with the return character or something else.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>This code below is attached to the field sprite loading it.
>
>property pMember
>
>on beginSprite me
> pMember = sprite(me.spriteNum).member
> pMember.text = EMPTY
>end
>
>on loadInstructionsFile me, instFileName
> pFullFileName = instFileName
> filePointer = new(xtra "FileIO")
>
> -- Open the file in reading mode
> openFile(filePointer, pFullFileName,1)
>
> -- read the file header
>
> textData = readFile(filePointer)
> pMember.text = textData
> closeFile(filePointer)
>end
>
>
>
>
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