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Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code

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Hello All,

I'm writing some script to check if a certain file does infact contain 
unicode, or is just ASCII formatted that way.   The code is nothing special, 
just using a ReadAll to get the file contents, and than function which 
checks the first two chars (&hFF, &hFE) and a loop checking each second char 
(&h00).

The odd thing is that I got back that one of those &h00 checks failed, when 
I could see (using a hex editor) that all of those where infact zero.

When I added a wscript.echo to show the index and the contents the problem 
disappeared.  When I removed the line again the problem came back.  Huh ?

It became stranger though:  when I just placed an empty line there the 
problem went away too.

And than sometimes adding an empty line somewhere else (regardless of the 
middle, begin or end of the script) made the location of the failed check 
change - or disappear.

I'm confused, and worried: what is going on here ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-02-28 12:15 +0100
  Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2018-02-28 08:05 -0500
    Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-02-28 15:14 +0100
  Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2018-02-28 20:25 +0700
    Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2018-02-28 08:38 -0500
    Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-02-28 14:55 +0100
  Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2018-02-28 10:01 -0500
    Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-02-28 17:16 +0100

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