Re: Non displayable characters in a PF

Surely that is 'C C'. Why would you see x'34'? RPG, as an example, is only going to see C3, 40, 40, C3 as you look at each character in the string...


----- Original Message ----- From: "David FOXWELL" <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:02 AM
Subject: RE: Non displayable characters in a PF


If I had :

C34040C3

How do I detect that I have C3 40 40 C3 and there's no 34 in there?

-----Message d'origine-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Crispin Bates
Envoyé : jeudi 26 mars 2009 14:20
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Objet : Re: Non displayable characters in a PF

The characters are < x'40' (blank). You'll have to scan
through the string and replace anything < x'40' with x'40'..

----- Original Message -----
From: "David FOXWELL" <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:30 AM
Subject: RE: Non displayable characters in a PF


Thanks,

Sorry if I wasn't clear : we don't want user pasting this
kind of thing but presumably we can't prevent it unless it
can be detected. We have only discovered the characters when
the contents of the PF were written out to XML files. This
caused an error in the application treating the XML.

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de
> lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Envoyé : jeudi 26 mars 2009 13:17 À :
> midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Objet : RE: Non displayable
characters in a PF
>
> Word (and other programs) can contain formatting information in
> addition to the actual text: bold, font change, font size
change, etc.
>
> I've found it easiest to copy the text from Word into Notepad or
> UltraEdit (I use this), then copy that resulting text into 5250. UE
> and Notepad only recognize the textual data, and ignore formatting
> characteristics.
>
> HTH,
> Loyd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David FOXWELL
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:12 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Non displayable characters in a PF
>
> Hi,
>
> Hope this isn't too vague a question :
>
> Users are copying and pasting into a green screen
application from MS
> Word and the results are saved in a PF. The user entry program does
> not display these characters and so the user doesn't
realise. DSPPFM
> shows the characters in inverse video. It's not possible to modify
> afterwards with DFU.
>
> What is missing to prevent the pasting of these unwanted characters?
> Why doesn't the data entry screen show them but DSPPFM does?
>
> Thanks.
>
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