> What's even more interesting is that there are only 45 lines....

I've loaded the file into a couple of editors and there's definitly 46
lines.  Some editors won't show lines with odd characters (like NULL or
EOF).


> We're pulling data from a mainframe database and converting it into
vanilla
> html.  And unless I can identify the character I can't remove it.

Perhaps I'm just a bit anal retentive, but I'd change the program that does
the conversion to produce a more valid file (ie one with HTML, HEAD and BODY
tags), convert the diacritical/extended characters to HTML entities, and
strip the ASCII NULL charcaters.


- Darryl

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  Darryl Friesen, B.Sc., Programmer/Analyst    Darryl.Friesen@usask.ca
  Education & Research Technology Services,     http://gollum.usask.ca/
  Information Technology Services Division,
  University of Saskatchewan
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