[jawsscripts] Re: Problem with StringToFile, Jamal's HSL

  • From: Brian Hartgen <jaws@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:28:33 +0000

Hi Gordon

Thanks very much for the explanation, and I will certainly try that out. Lets 
hope it solves the problem.

Thank you again.


On 22/11/2012, at 3:55 PM, "Luke, Gordon" <gordon.luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Brian
> It's not a space at the end of the file.  Instead it's a character 0.  Not 
> entirely sure why Jaws 14 is adding this in but I'm sure people with far 
> greater knowledge than myself can let us know.  Perhaps there's a compiler 
> directive that is required to make the string concatenation behave in a 
> similar way to earlier Jaws versions.
> 
> Anyway all you need to do is to call Jamal's function and replace the 
> character 0 characters with empty strings e.g.
> 
> StringToFile (StringReplaceSubstrings (temp, "\0", ""), "c:\\temp\\test.txt")
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Cheers
> 
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> Subject: [jawsscripts] Problem with StringToFile, Jamal's HSL
> 
> Hi
> I have a problem which is baffling me at the moment. For various projects 
> available to the community, I use Jamal's Homer Script Library. It is full of 
> useful functions and I've used it for years.
> 
> However there is one function which is causing a problem. It works fine with 
> many jaws versions up to and including 13, but it does not work correctly in 
> 14 and I do need it to if anyone can please suggest a solution.
> 
> The function, StringToFile, writes a string to a text file. In jaws 14, this 
> is working fine except that it leaves an extra space character at the end. 
> This can be simulated simply as follows:
> 
> Assume that homer.jsb is attached via a use statement to your script.
> 
> Script test700 ()
> 
> saystring ("ok")
> 
> var
> 
> string temp
> 
> let temp = "hello "
> 
> let temp = temp +"goodbye"
> 
> StringToFile (temp, "c:\\temp\\test.txt")
> 
> ã
> 
> ã
> 
> EndScript
> 
> 
> This outputs to a text file "hello goodbye", then a space character, rather 
> than just having a clean file.
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I may erase the space character?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Brian Hartgen
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