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GeneralRe: The changing landscape of OOP (from class to struct) Pin
Juan Pablo Reyes Altamirano27-Sep-23 8:31
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RantThe Day I Learned to Deal With the BOM Pin
kmoorevs15-Sep-23 9:21
kmoorevs15-Sep-23 9:21 
Edited: The original Subject here was 'The Day I Learned to Hate the BOM'. After considering the first response, I have modified it to reflect a more appropriate and less offensive title. Smile | :) I'm only explaining this to provide context for the first responder's grievance. (and strike tags are not allowed in the subject)

I've been importing text files for over 20 years and I thought I'd seen it all!...CSV lines enclosed in double-quotes, CSV fields with commas (not enclosed in double-quotes), implied decimal places, packed decimal format, subtotal lines, total lines, garbage lines, etc.

What I haven't seen before now are text files with byte order mark (BOM) characters that don't seem to do anything significant except to require dealing with. OMG | :OMG: It's probably been an issue long before now, but 90% of the time, the files have a header row so it wouldn't have mattered.

For fun, or as an office joke, you can add BOM to your own text files by changing the Encoding in NotePad.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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modified 17-Sep-23 11:32am.

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Generaljsfiddle nightmare: Schrodinger's lost code Pin
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GeneralOne of the worst routines I've ever written. Shame on me? Pin
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