Questions tagged [hidden-characters]

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Ajax send and adds hidden characters

I want to send something from one php site to another. At the first site, everything seems fine. The string seems like --show="author,book,text/n but when i check the string after receiving it looks like --show="author,book,text/r/n there is…
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Unable to Replace Hidden Backslashes

I have a field in a table that I found has hidden/invisible \ at the end of each value. This is causing issues in another process that requires the data to be moved over to a Redshift database. The hidden backslashes is causing the data to error in…
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Compound print statement overwrites part of variable

I have some very bizarre behavior in a script that I wrote and have used for years but, for some reason, fails to run on one particular file. Recognizing that the script is failing to identify a key that should be in a hash, I added some test print…
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How to write a search text implementation in Java

I am trying to write a search text implementation in Java With the below code below: public String log(Object... source) {...//simple System.out.println for debugging purposes} public boolean searchInLoweCase(CharSequence searchTag, CharSequence…
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Pandas Dataframe not recognizing strings as identical for grouping

I have a dataset with several hundred Account numbers and their Descriptions. It has been imported from Excel into a Python dataframe. The Descriptions, in Excel, have varying numbers of leading and trailing white spaces. The Account number is an…
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Can I use a between statement for a range of characters in SQL?

My current code works and highlights email addresses with illegal (&hidden) characters that go to downstream systems and break them. Question is can make the statment more efficient and say search for any character between CHAR(1) and CHAR(31)…
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Hidden character causing carriage return in txt file

In the Example.txt file here, there are two words. "closed containers". When I try to copy and paste this into a word document there is a carriage return between the "a" and the "i" so it comes out as the following: instead of: closed…
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Why is this CSS giving a validation error?

The CSS code is: li.block1 img { display: block; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; }​ I have tried removing the li and making it .block img. I have tried removing img and only having li.block. I tried changing block to block1. I even tried changing…
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How to find the hidden special character in the string "Regre​ssion" C#

In the string "Regre​ssion" there is a special character hidden whenever this comes to DB it is storing it as "Regre?ssion" how to remove the hidden special character. Note: I have not typed the string I have copied it from my application which is…
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SELECT WHERE LIKE returns incomplete results and the reason is not diacritics

I am searching for results WHERE name LIKE '%Soucek%' (or I tried '%Souček%' or '%Soućek%'. I get one result. (I set the whole column to be COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1251_CI_AS). If I search for '%Sou_ek%' i get all results there are. I dont…
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Identify Hidden Characters

In my SQL tables I have text which has hidden characters which is only visible when I copy and paste it in notepad++. How to find those rows which has hidden characters using SQL Server queries? I have tried comparing the lengths using datalength…
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hidden space in excel

I tried almost all the methods (CLEAN,TRIM,SUBSTITUTE) trying to remove the character hiding in the beginning and the end of a text. In my case, I downloaded the bill of material report from oracle ERP and found that the item codes are a victim of…
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Hidden Characters?

I've written a set of modules that parses data into .json files for upload into ArcGIS. Everything works great except that when I try to upload the .json files, it crashes and says there are unexpected characters. I don't see any characters when I…
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How do I replace a word in a text file with another word and an action?

hi all Suppose we have a text file (file1.txt) file1.txt contains many words and spaces and enter characters (cR+LF). I wanna to replace a specific word that follows with an enter character and replace it with only that word. I mean eliminating…
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Dealing with encoding inconsistencies/cleaning hidden characters from webpage

I scraped the link below and I want to process the text for further analysis using Python. The segment at issue is "kwa vimada wake". I want to end up with text the corresponds to the way it is intended to display (and does display on my browser),…
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