This is what I want to avoid as well. I am starting to use UNLOAD and
RELOAD and such
a lot more and was wondering what arebthe likely candidates for
characters that users
inadvertently get into a RBase database.
Jim Limburg
"Stephen R. Hartmann" wrote:
>
> We have had a lot of problems with characters inserted in the db making the
> data "unloadable". I had to write a routine that would strip out unwanted
> characters. This was especially a problem when text was pasted into
> multi-line text boxes. Since we wanted to maintain Chr(10) and Chr(13) for
> formatting purposes, we substitute acceptable characters when the data is
> stored and then replace the characters when we display them.
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Jim Limburg
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 12:23 PM
> To: RBase Listserv
> Subject: Good Question
>
> G-Day all
>
> I was thinking ... I know, I need to stop that....
> If a database is unloaded to a file... What do all you guru's
> check for in that file as far as when you look for bad characters.
> I have seen this commemnt about checking for such, but I am at a loss
> as to what to check for. I don't have any major problems at the moment,
> and this came to my feeble mind.
>
> Jim Limburg
