FileRead changing " to "

[Aktonius]

Since i have a code to detect strings in a string without this weird conversions might program might fail if this happens. Ok i can change my code to detect " but i just wonder how many of these conversions of strings can i expect for file read to do?

If you get my point, i feel unpredictable errors might happen if this happens more then i expect

[BrewManNH]

If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that FileRead is reading quotes from a file and converting them to &quot? I don't believe I've ever seen it do that for me. Are you reading from an HTML document when you do this?

[Aktonius]

From xml

Oh, i should of say that this happens only if it detects double quotes ("") so it will read it as ("") but with single " it wont do any conversion

Edited March 28, 2012 by Aktonius

[kylomas]

Aktonius,

These symbols are known as "character entities" or sometimes "special entities" in HTML. There are about 30 of them, the most common of which are &quote, &amp, &lt and &gt. You might also run into the formatting symbol &nbsp.

You need to become more familiar with your data, AutoIT is NOT converting anything for you.

Good Luck,

kylomas

Edit: add link - see this link for a list http://www.ask.com/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references

Edited March 28, 2012 by kylomas

[Aktonius]

Kylomas, its not &quote but "

Try it yourself with double "" inside .xml readed with fileread() and you will see it does convert.

edit: It turns out that fileread isnt converting it but IE which i was using to figure out xml content. Hard to say it but i was wrong.

THanks for the link, i guess i will need to make sure i convert every of those entities to converted format to avoid code issues which doesnt look fun at all but i dont see other way.

Edited March 28, 2012 by Aktonius

[kylomas]

Aktonius,

Post your script

kylomas

[kylomas]

Aktonius,

Run this code to see what AutoIT reads. The .XML suggests that you are working with an object of some sort, perhaps that is where the data is changing.

;
;
;
;   freakin &quot test
Local $str = '""'
FileWrite(@TempDir & "quot.txt",$str)
ConsoleWrite(FileRead(@TempDir & "quot.txt") & @lf)

kylomas