strange character problem

[Eps]

My program has an ini file which i read in the settings for the program.
The main setting is the path where files are to be saved. At the
moment it doesn't work, but if I hardcode the path it does (even though
the hardcoded path is the same as the one in the ini file).

I looked at the path in a text box after it had been read in and it had
a strange character on the end, it was a slim upright rectangle, i
assume this is the source of my problem. Anyone know how I can read in
the string without this character ?

Any help appreciated.

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[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Re: strange character problem

Eps,

In the debugger, I would check the length of the string, and find out
the value of that character. It is possible that there is some whitespace
or non printable character that is in the file.

In either case, you can trim off the whitespace or non printable
character, or modify the file (I'd cut it out and retype the path in the ini
file).

Hope this helps.


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"Eps" <eps@mailinator .com> wrote in message
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> My program has an ini file which i read in the settings for the program.
> The main setting is the path where files are to be saved. At the moment
> it doesn't work, but if I hardcode the path it does (even though the
> hardcoded path is the same as the one in the ini file).
>
> I looked at the path in a text box after it had been read in and it had a
> strange character on the end, it was a slim upright rectangle, i assume
> this is the source of my problem. Anyone know how I can read in the
> string without this character ?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> --
> Eps
>
> http://ukcomment.blogspot.com/
>
> A UK political Blog[/color]

[Eps]

Re: strange character problem

Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] wrote:[color=blue]
> Eps,
>
> In the debugger, I would check the length of the string, and find out
> the value of that character.[/color]

I'm using visual c# 2005 express, how can i view the contents of a
varible when the program is running ?

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[Bruce Wood]

Re: strange character problem

The cheap and nasty way is to do this:

Console.WriteLi ne("Character code is: {0}",
(int)problemStr ing[problemString.L ength - 1]);

this will print out the character code as an integer. You can then look
it up in an ASCII table.

[Eps]

Re: strange character problem

Bruce Wood wrote:[color=blue]
> The cheap and nasty way is to do this:
>
> Console.WriteLi ne("Character code is: {0}",
> (int)problemStr ing[problemString.L ength - 1]);
>
> this will print out the character code as an integer. You can then look
> it up in an ASCII table.
>[/color]

thanks for everyones help, turns out using the Trim method sorted it.

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