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Re: Spurious characters appear at (semi-)random intervals [message #26628]

Fri, 21 September 2001 06:39

Jaco van Gorkom
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Registered: November 2000

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Bruce Bowler wrote:
> I'm using IDL 5.3 on a RedHat 7.0 system. In IDLDE, I occasionally
> get random ctrl/M's thrown into the text. Most of the time, IDL
> doesn't like those extra returns and throws a hissy fit...
> ...
> Sound familiar to anyone?

Ctrl/M's sometimes appear when transferring code between Windows and Unix,
but I have never seen IDL complain about them.

With IDL 5.3 on Solaris 2.7 I used to get non-printable characters (not
ctrl/M's) at seemingly random places in my code, at seemingly random
times. There were not visible in the IDLDE window; I could only infer
their presence from the syntax errors which IDL threw in otherwise perfect
code. Retyping the word or line would fix it.
These problems have disappeared with IDL 5.4, so since then I've assumed
that it had something to do with the color-coded editor in 5.3 .

Jaco

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