Mif Wash FYI [was Re: Table that won't sort correctly: wash-up]

[Stuart Rogers]

On 10/12/2012 3:44 AM, Chris Despopoulos wrote:
> What MIF wash actually does is simply ignore any garbage in the file.
> MIF is pretty much a text representation of the binary format. But MIF
> interpretation is loose, so if there's any garbage in there, saving as
> MIF *might* write the garbage out, but it will certainly not read it.
> In this case, there most likely was something else in that string that
> caused it to break into two MIF string statements.  However, it was a
> character that the MIF interpreter doesn't understand.  So writing out
> to MIF triggers two string statements, but the cause of the string break
> doesn't make it into the MIF file.  Then on read, since there's nothing
> there to warrant two strings, the interpreter turns it into a single
> string.


Steve,

Sounds like you might be able to identify the mystery character by 
opening the Word/RTF source file in a hex editor.  It would satisfy 
curiosity, if nothing else!

s.

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