What was that strange character? The mystery deepens
In my last post, What's that funny character?, I asked about a particular character. In fact, another mystery character can occur.
Embarassingly, SET CARRY ON was set on my machine when I ran the code, and I didn’t add it to the sample. It’s off normally (choose Tools->Options->General->Fill new records with current values)
Apparently I had it set ON in the registry (Tools->Options->Set as Default), which writes that value to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualFoxPro\9.0\Options, probably because I was debugging some other issue.
Try this code:
SET CARRY ON
CREATE CURSOR foo (line c(100), date c(10))
SET FIELDS TO line
LIST STRUCTURE TO t.txt
APPEND FROM t.txt sdf
GO RECCOUNT()-2
SCAN NEXT 2
?"Rec #",RECNO()
FOR i = 1 TO 15
?i,SUBSTR(line,i,1),ASC(SUBSTR(line,i,1))
ENDFOR
ENDSCAN
Now there’s another extra character. What’s going on?
Take a look at this picture and you’ll see the answer.
How far back does this behavior go? At least a dozen years!?!
