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Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ?

From Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de>
Newsgroups microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Subject Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ?
Date 2017-04-21 01:05 +0200
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Hi Mayayana,

Am 20.04.2017 um 19:24 schrieb Mayayana:
> "R.Wieser"<address@not.available>  wrote
>
> | If you want to replicate the error I started with, just try to write a
> | "chrw(-257)" to a ASCII/ANSI-mode file (notice the "w" between the "chr",
> | and the "(" ).
> |
>
>    I assume you mean ChrW(257), since -257 is
> meaningless. It writes to disk just fine if written
> as unicode, with CreateTextFile(path, True, True)

ChrW(-257) is not meaningless! It is unicode u+FEFF which may be used 
for detecting the current byte order.

see http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/FEFF/index.htm

Ulrich

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WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 14:14 +0200
  Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 09:06 -0400
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 16:44 +0200
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 18:50 -0400
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 11:39 +0200
          Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 09:22 -0400
            Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 17:27 +0200
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 13:49 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-20 17:56 +0200
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-20 13:24 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de> - 2017-04-21 01:05 +0200
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-20 21:42 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-21 10:11 +0200
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-21 09:23 +0200
  Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 09:57 -0400
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 17:20 +0200
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 14:27 -0400
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 22:15 +0200
          Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 18:30 -0400
            Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 11:09 +0200
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 09:23 -0400
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 09:59 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 17:41 +0200
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-18 11:58 -0400
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-26 09:56 -0400
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-26 16:35 +0200
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-26 10:44 -0400
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-26 11:07 -0400
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-26 16:29 -0400
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-26 21:26 -0400
          Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-26 23:28 -0400
            Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 01:11 -0400
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 09:28 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 15:22 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 19:16 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:08 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:11 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:17 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:21 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 22:37 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 00:01 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 01:19 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 01:46 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 12:36 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-29 19:59 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 20:18 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 23:50 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 19:29 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:04 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 22:25 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:31 -0400
  Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de> - 2017-04-18 19:20 +0200
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 19:58 +0200
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de> - 2017-04-19 14:59 +0200
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 16:46 +0200

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