RE: RPG reads characters that are invisible to the user.

Thanks Jeff,

I tried your example and I finished with one "." on my DSPF. However, that got saved to my PF normally without any problems. If I copy and paste a tabulation from word, I don't see it on the green screen, but I find I end up with a HEX 15 in my PF.

I am rather puzzled by this, it means that any character field in any of our files could potentially be contaminated in this fashion.

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David,

This has heppend to me, the reason I found out the problem
lies in the auto correct functionality on MS Word. For
example in word if you type ... (3 periods) it changes it to
a single hex value from 3 separate ones.
When this is pasted into a DSPF it only see the single hex
value thus causing the problem... This example happened to me
at my place of employment. I hope this helps in your search.

Jeff Davis





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Hi all,

One last try to understand what's going on here.

Users are copying and pasting from MSword to a DSPF on a
greenscreen. They are writing undisplayable characters to a
PF in this way. Why does the DSPF show nothing, but passes
the undesirable characters to the RPG program?

Hang on have I answered my own question? The DSPF doesn't
show the undisplayable characters because.... they're undisplayable?

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