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

From "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam>
Newsgroups microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Subject Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ?
Date 2017-04-20 21:42 -0400
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"Ulrich Möller" <knobbi38@arcor.de> wrote


| 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
|

  FEFF is decimal 65279. Unicode numbers are not
signed. -257 is FFFFFEFF, outside the unicode range.
But what does it matter? Even if it were FEFF, why
would one write that to disk in order to test a
unicode write?

   I'd assumed he was just trying to write something
above 255, to see if it works. And it works fine, as
long as one writes the file as unicode. He seemed to imply
that it causes some kind of error. Writing ChrW(257)
writes FF FE 01 01 as expected and gives me an "a"
with a line over it. Writing -257 gives me a file with
bytes FF FE FF FE. I'm guessing that may be the result
of trying to write an invalid character. The file just
ends up blank with two unicode markers. But I
don't know... And who cares?

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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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