brazenwolfy Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Hi all,I'm working a script that downloads software test instructions from an internal site and places them into Excel spreadsheets. I noticed a lot of the test instructions have unknown characters in the body of text: 𐀑. Is there any way to remove all instances of the replacement character? I've tried the following, but it didn't seem to work.$sTestInstructions = StringReplace( $sTestInstructions, '& #65533', '')Any ideas how to do this properly?Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 If you mean the replacement character by itself (Unicode codepoint 65533 or hex FFFD) then ChrW(65533) will certainly work. If you mean the string "�" then remove the extra space in the target string. This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brazenwolfy Posted June 20, 2012 Author Share Posted June 20, 2012 I tried the following and I still get the replacement character in the Excel spreadsheet: $sTestInstructions = StringReplace( $sTestInstructions, 'ChrW(65533)', '') When I print $sTestInstructions to the console, all replacement characters appear as "?"s. Thanks for the quick response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czardas Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 You sent the function as a string. That won't work. $sTestInstructions = StringReplace( $sTestInstructions, ChrW(65533), '') operator64 ArrayWorkshop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 The SciTe console is ANSI only unless you change the default to Unicode UTF-8 (codepage 65001). This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brazenwolfy Posted June 20, 2012 Author Share Posted June 20, 2012 Ahh, I see. That got it working. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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