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    I see in the post above the the word sa***uard contains three ***s
    this also happened in the version 5 forum with the same word so I ame going to retype and resubmit this word again. So I am not going batty in case you are wondering.
    sa***uard
    sa***uard
    ***
    ***
    teg

    #2
    Probably some sort of prohibited letter sequence filter.

    Wonder if s-a-f-e-g-u-a-r-d would pass..

    Actually, you can preview your post to see how it will appear.
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Message board doesn't like this string

      The sacred string "***" which can't be typed.
      The sacred string which can be found in the word sa***uard shows up as three asterixes ( I hope this is the proper spelling)
      The sacred string begins not with the fifth letter of the alphabet nor does it begin with the 7th letter of the alphabet but that of which is in between.
      The second letter of the sacred string is one letter greater than the 4th letter of the alphabet (oops I uttered the name of the 5th letter!!)
      This is a really stupid way to reveal the identity of the sacred string. I know I will type it out in reverse!
      The sacred string in reverse is

      gef

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        #4
        Actually this is quite troubling.

        Somehow the reply editor is changing the text.

        I saw this yesterday in a bit of xbasic code that I uploaded, as inline text in the body of a message. Even though it was surrounded with Quote tags the editor altered the text causing the script to break.

        The message board editor must be configured to leave text alone, or none of us will be able to trust it with xbasic code.

        -- tom

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          #5
          Tom, can you point me at the post where your text was modified and also let me know what it was originially? This board has a "feature" that censors certain words, and it does substring matching by default. I just fixed the case where "parse" got censored because it does not like that word if you remove the "p". With a little tweaking and patience we'll getthrough this.

          -Lenny

          Lenny Forziati
          Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
          Alpha Software Corporation

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            #6
            Lenny, it was in the A5v5 forum:
            http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/al...51607#poststop

            In the second post to the thread.

            The Code I was entering read as follows (I'm going to try to highlight the glitches created by the msg board editor).

            DIM form_name as C
            if is_object(topparent.this) then
            form_name = topparent.name()+".this"
            else
            form_name = ""
            end if
            DIM GLOBAL vc_allergy_list as C; vc_allergy_list = "" '<========== assign empty string
            DIM GLOBAL vc_allergies_chosen as C; vc_allergies_chosen = "" '<=========== assign empty string
            DIM GLOBAL varC_result as C; varC_result = ""
            DELETE expression_result
            expression_result = eval("var->vc_allergy_list",form_name) '<========== 2d argument s/b table, not form
            vc_allergies_chosen = convert_type(expression_result,"C")

            'auto_list_vc_allergy_list = table.external_record_content_get("allergy_table","Alergy_Description","Alergy_code","")

            vc_allergy_list=""
            auto_list_vc_allergy_list = "Shellfish,Peanuts,Milk"
            auto_list_vc_allergy_list = stritran(auto_list_vc_allergy_list,",",crlf())
            temp_count = w_count(auto_list_vc_allergy_list,crlf())
            DELETE a_vc_allergy_list
            DIM a_vc_allergy_list[temp_count] as c
            'in the next line blanks were inserted in front of the third "list"
            a_vc_allergy_list.initialize(auto_list_vc_allergy_ list)

            auto_list_vc_allergies_chosen = Var->vc_allergy_list

            temp_count = w_count(auto_list_vc_allergies_chosen,crlf())
            DELETE a_vc_allergies_chosen
            DIM a_vc_allergies_chosen[temp_count] as c
            'in the next line blanks were inserted in the middle of the word a-u-t-o-_-l-i-s-_v-c-_-a-l-l-e-r-g-i-e-s-_-c-h-o-s-e-n
            a_vc_allergies_chosen.initialize(auto_list_vc_alle rgies_chosen) '<=========== typo corrected
            heading_string = "Click item to select, click again to un-select"
            ok_button_label = "&OK"
            cancel_button_label = "&Cancel"
            varC_result = ui_dlg_box("Choose Allergy List",<<%dlg%
            {region}
            {text=55,1:heading_string};
            {endregion};
            {region}
            Chosen items in Blue:| [%M%.40,5vc_allergy_list^#a_vc_allergy_list!changed ];
            {endregion}
            {lf};
            {frame=1,1:Variable Chosen:}
            {region}
            {text=40,10variables_txt}
            {endregion};

            {line=1,0};
            {region}
            <*15=ok_button_label!OK> <15=cancel_button_label!CANCEL>
            {endregion};
            %dlg%,<<%code%
            if a_dlg_button = "changed " then '<========== "changed" or "changed " ?
            a_dlg_button = ""
            variables_txt=var->vc_allergy_list '<========== variables_text or variables_txt?
            end if
            %code%)
            ui_msg_box("",vc_allergy_list)

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              #7
              Tom, the board only inserts asterisks when it is censoring a word. Is it possible that you used spell check and the spell checker split some words that id didn't recognize?

              Lenny Forziati
              Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
              Alpha Software Corporation

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                #8
                Originally posted by Lenny Forziati
                Is it possible that you used spell check and the spell checker split some words that id didn't recognize?
                Lenny,

                It appears that it couldn't be anything like a spell checker because those same words are used elsewhere in Tom's code without being broken up. Notice where those variables are initially assigned and it all seems intact.

                However, I noticed one other peculiarity. These insertions are only on statements using the <array>.initialize() function. Moreover, while other statements have spaces typed in here and there (e.g. the space after a "dim"), these two initialize statements have none such. It is one contiguous line without spaces.

                Could it be that the forum software works first with words delimited by spaces then if any word is longer than 50 bytes it breaks the word into pieces to process? I ask this because it is (coincidentally?) on the 51st bytes where those added spaces appear.

                Steve
                Last edited by Steve Andrews; 09-27-2005, 01:15 PM. Reason: Slight change of wording.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Steve Andrews
                  Lenny,

                  Could it be that the forum software works first with words delimited by spaces then if any word is longer than 50 bytes it breaks the word into pieces to process? I ask this because it is (coincidentally?) on the 51st bytes where those added spaces appear.

                  Steve

                  Steve, you deserve a cookie. Thank you, we are fixing this now.

                  Lenny Forziati
                  Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
                  Alpha Software Corporation

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                    #10
                    Lenny, I suppose. It's not something I did manually. Is the spellchecker on by default? Where do I disable it ?

                    -- tom

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Tom Cone Jr
                      Lenny, I suppose. It's not something I did manually. Is the spellchecker on by default? Where do I disable it ?

                      -- tom
                      Tom, thanks to Steve, we have found and fixed the problem. The board software was inserting a space after 50 characters in order to allow for line wrapping. It is not intelligent enough top leave a code block alone, so we disabled this functionality.

                      Lenny Forziati
                      Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
                      Alpha Software Corporation

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                        #12
                        The spellchecker only becomes active if you press the "Spell Check" button before submitting your reply.

                        Originally posted by Tom Cone Jr
                        Lenny, I suppose. It's not something I did manually. Is the spellchecker on by default? Where do I disable it ?

                        -- tom
                        Aaron Brown
                        Alpha Software Development Team

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