It's a feature! For old "legacy" apps that use the marker (and other 
control/non-printable) characters as part of the key and are too hard to change.

UV lets you turn that feature off, maybe UD does too now.


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan McGrath
Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 3:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [U2] RE: Interest results on VOC file

Hi Nick,

I had tried checking out the ID's of the keys affected. There was was
nothing unusual about them that I can tell. One was "1" and another was
"2".

When attempting to edit them, they didn't exist.

After reading your email, I write a quick test program:

001: OPEN "BREAKME" TO FH ELSE STOP
003: WRITE "1" TO FH,"1":@SM
002: WRITE "2" TO FH,"2":@VM
003: WRITE "3" TO FH,"3":@AM
004: WRITE "4" TO FH,"4":CHAR(10)
005: WRITE "5" TO FH,"5":CHAR(13)
Bottom.
*--:

After running it, I did the select/nselect on BREAKME and it came back
with 1 record.

:)

Record "3" didn't exist, the attribute marker is the culprit. Now I need
to find out who has written a program that is causing this, because it
isn't the first time these ghost records have appeared...

It begs a question though. How come Unidata allows a program to write
records with keys that it can not handle without error?

Regards,
Dan

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