Re: what is a hard space?

2005-08-14 Thread Martin Baxter
Ken Ray wrote: On 8/13/05 6:21 PM, Erik Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is a hard space? A hard space is ASCII 202 (which on a Mac you can get by typing Option-Space) Perhaps it's worth adding that: Non-breaking space is character 202 in Mac Roman. But it is 160 in Latin-1, Ansi

Re: what is a hard space?

2005-08-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/13/05 6:21 PM, Erik Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is a hard space? It's what you are between a rock and a. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

what is a hard space?

2005-08-13 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/13/05 12:35 AM, Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing to keep in mind is the situation where you have hard-spaces before or after a string, in which case the word 1 to -1 approach won't work. what is a hard space? thanks

Re: what is a hard space?

2005-08-13 Thread Ken Ray
to -1 approach won't work. what is a hard space? A hard space is ASCII 202 (which on a Mac you can get by typing Option-Space), which looks like a space, but acts like a non-space character - that is, you can't break the words connected with hard spaces because it looks (to the OS) like a single

Re: what is a hard space?

2005-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ken Ray wrote: what is a hard space? A hard space is ASCII 202 (which on a Mac you can get by typing Option-Space), which looks like a space, but acts like a non-space character - that is, you can't break the words connected with hard spaces because it looks (to the OS) like a single word