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Bug #9694

Implementation for EOF quirk in IMPORT statement

Added by Razvan-Nicolae Chichirau over 1 year ago. Updated over 1 year ago.

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#1 Updated by Razvan-Nicolae Chichirau over 1 year ago

  • Description updated (diff)

When trying to import binary files such as .pdf, .xls, etc in 4GL and read them as non-binary (INPUT FROM without BINARY option), strange things can happen. More exactly, OE tries to interpret every character being read and this results in a special behavior around the EOF character which is also known as the "substitute char" (hex is 0x1A).

This problem was found in #9611 and and more rigorously documented in #9611-34.

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