hidden character ?

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Steven Waters (Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:11:55 -0800):

> SCO UNIX / FP5.0.14
>
> I'm Back!
> Thanks again for all of the help on Monday & Tuesday.
>
> After importing my data from csv to Filepro
> (not really csv, I changed the "," to "~")
> the very last field that imported has a
> question mark at the end of the data like this;
>
> Triumph Controls?
>
> When I print out the field the "?" is gone.
> What is this character that I am seeing?
> Is my import wrong?
>
> import ascii imp = /f/appl/fpmerge/tgicaps.csv r=\n f=~

My guess:

You're creating this file on Windows and then reading it on a
Unix box without converting from Windows to Unix text format.
(Specifically, changing CRLF line endings to just LF.)

How did you move this file from Windows to Unix?

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