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@Xero, what do you get if you put this into the message box?

As I said above, the text of an image, whether referenced or not, is not empty after using: -- next two lines needed for referenced images only set the alphadata of img iName to the alphadata of img iName set the imagedata of img iName to the imagedata of img iName Right, I was asking the OP who sa...

As far as I know, referenced images are the only way the text would be empty. Did you import the image using the Import Control item in the File menu?

assuming • will not appear in text, then use • as the itemdelimiter, do the replace, then remove •

My favorite delimiters are ascii 3 and 8. They can't be typed, so neither will ever be in the text a user creates.

Images are always binary data. The blank lines and spaces you saw are non-printable characters that are part of the image (you can see a representation of those if you open an image file in a text editor that shows invisible characters.) I'm not sure why grayscale images appear to be okay but they w...

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Fri Jul 12, 2019 8:39 pm

Do you have a link for this? My searches are coming up empty.

I only found this: http://hopl.info/showlanguage.prx?exp=7 ... uage=YAMIL

I'm certain the LC report didn't mean this, YAMIL dates from 1980. To be honest, I was kind of surprised to get any hits at all.

Sorry. I assume in this case they're talking about GPS.

It's not well documented but Yamil is a programming language for music. But I suspect LC meant your version.

Maybe "trueWord" then. It ignores spaces, punctuation, etc. I'm just thinking out loud.

Images have formattedHeight. Is the image used as an imagesource? If so, get the formattedHeight of the original. Imagesource is the only way I can think of to embed an image in a field.

If you want the height of the entire field including the image then formattedHeight should also still work.

LC Global was the annual conference held entirely online with live streaming. There were two, preceding this year's physical conference. Each conference spanned an entire year, with a daily session happening once a month (so you got 12 days instead of three.) If you paid to attend, then all material...

Are you saving the file as binary (binfile)?

I'd be tempted to use an array for each section and then arrayEncode it and save it as binfile, but that's just me. hh's suggestion does convert it to ascii which doesn't require binary.

Could you repeat for each word instead of items? That would ignore extraneous spaces at both ends as well as internally.

The formattedHeight?

If you were running the stack in an older version of LC, we didn't need to worry about encoding back then but since LC 7 we do. If that isn't the case, I have no idea. It's one of those mysteries you could probably track down but probably isn't worth the effort.

Yes, that's UTF-8. In general, when moving data in/out of LC you need to textDecode/textEncode because almost all databases are UTF-8 and LC uses UTF-16. I'm not sure that will fix your problem but it isn't hard to do that and it might tell you something.