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Garbage characters in files created with VBScript - 4/19/2005 2:41:02 PM

asserm

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Hello,

I'm new to vbscript and asp. I'm trying to take information that a user provides in an html text field and write it to a file on the unix backend filesystem.

The file is created fine with the data, but sometimes I get garbage characters at the beginning of the text file.

Can someone please tell me what I may be doing wrong? Basically my code is as follows...

Initialize variables.
Construct a very long string (about 3k)
Get FileSystemObject
CreateTextFile for writing
Write the very long string to file
Close file

Any help greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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Re: Garbage characters in files created with VBScript - 4/19/2005 3:09:10 PM

VBS

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Dear asserm,
Try spliting the very long string into several variables, (use Arrays as an example) and then put them into the file.
It might work.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards
Firas S Assaad

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Re: Garbage characters in files created with VBScript - 4/25/2005 11:11:53 AM

asserm

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Thanks!! That worked perfectly. Apparently vbscript does not properly handle writing a string that is longer than 1024 (1K) characters to a file in one shot. I had used a while loop and the mid function to write the string to the file 500 characters at a time.

That did the trick!

Thanks again.

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