On 1/30/2015 6:50 AM, David Epstein wrote:
But since it seems that fonts and systems will differ as to which characters are actually invisible, I will need to purge even harmless visible characters. So my current plan is to use this function:function scrubbedText txt -- For tab-delimited data, replace possibly invisible characters with a space; and then -- remove leading and trailing spaces from each cell repeat for each char k in txt if charToNum(k) > 31 or charToNum(k) < 127 then put k after hold else put space after hold end repeat
You could probably use "filter txt with regex pattern", if you can come up with the right regular expression. One of our smart regex people probably knows what that is.
If you do end up using the function above, I think you'll want to use "and" instead of "or" in the "if" statement. As written it will match all possible characters.
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