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

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Wally,

> Can't say much without seeing some code.

Well, your "not much" is quite enough in this case.

> Some languages don't play well with the nul character, &h00.
>
> VBScript could be one of them.

Which is most likely the problem.    As it turns out (I kept trying to find 
solutions) I stumbled over a google result which mentioned that ReadAll 
flunks out when trying to read "binary" content (and even though 
'opentextfile' says it can handle unicode, 'ReadAll' apparently cannot), and 
returns a buffer which is as large as the to-be-read file, but only filled 
with it upto the first zero .... with the rest filled with whatever was in 
memory when the string was allocated.

> Don't know why the location of your extra line wouldn't matter if
> VBScript is getting a &h00 stuck somewhere.

My thoughts exactly.

But see above.  It looks like was just my changing of the source files size 
which made the string-buffer being allocated from another location, and thus 
with different garbage.

> Same result when opening the file as a different format?

Yep, tried that.  No difference.  Same wonkey behaviour.

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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