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NUL Characters (^@) Are Not Stripped When Imp
DocumentID: 612725
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:35:33 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: When a customer imports ASCII files from CaseBase (a legal case database) into WP 5.1 DOS, ^@ characters appear at the end of each line. Solutions: This is working as designed in WP 5.1 DOS. The customer can upgrade to WP 6.0 or WPWin 5.2, both of which handle NUL characters (i.e., ^@) differently because of their more common use. The customer could also format the document manually (which eliminates the NUL characters) by pressing Home, Home, Down Arrow, Home, Home, Up Arrow.

How/Why:
NUL (00h) characters and are not usually considered valid ASCII characters, although many developers are now using them as delimiters in ASCII files. WP 5.1 should eliminate them when files are retrieved using Shift-F10 or F5, but if too many of them are present, WP may let them pass.

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