Code copied from forum has invisible characters inserted...? (sometimes)

[lee321987]

Has anyone else noticed this?

EXAMPLE:

In this post:

If you copy-paste his code, there are bunch of 0x00 characters littered throughout the code, and SciTE throws an error "illegal character".

I wish I had another example, but I can't remember the last time this happened.  But it has happened before.

Does anyone have a work-around for this?

To get that code working, I pasted the code into a hex editor, and replaced all 0x00 with nothing.

[Earthshine]

In autoIT editor you can turn on viewing special characters. Find them that way 

Edited March 1, 2020 by Earthshine

[lee321987]

Two things:

1)  How do I do that in SciTE?  In Notepad++ there is a "show all characters" option, but I can't find one in SciTE.

2) I don't know what changed, but the forum post I referenced in the first post now copies correctly...????  (no inserted 0x00 chars)

[Subz]

Yes, noticed it occurred after a forum upgrade some time ago.  Normally if you run the code in Scite, the console output, will tell you where the illegal character is, I then just place the cursor where the error is and either press backspace or delete, unfortunately you can't see the character within the editor and even with "Show all Characters" in Notepad++.  Example, the code abberration quotes includes ï at the end of the second line (see Figure 1), but doesn't appear in the original code by Malkey.  If you post the code into the forum you will see a red dot where the illegal characters are (see Figure 2).

Figure 1

Figure 2

[argumentum]

4 hours ago, lee321987 said:

I pasted the code into a hex editor, and replaced all 0x00 with nothing

ClipPut(StringReplace(ClipGet(), Chr(0), ""))

 

[mikell]

StringRegExpReplace(ClipGet(), '[\x{0000}\x{FEFF}\x{200B}-\x{200D}]', "")

\x{0000}    NULL
\x{FEFF}    ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE
\x{200B}    ZERO WIDTH SPACE
\x{200C}     ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
\x{200D}     ZERO WIDTH JOINER

[Nine]

Another option I personally prefer. You press Ctrl-H, you check Regular Expression, in Find What, you enter [\xEF\xBB\xBF], and you click Replace All.  Gone are those undesired characters.  Those chars are usually the ones I have...

[argumentum]

I'm so lazy... . It's the driving force of my coding

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ClipPut(StringRegExpReplace(ClipGet(), '[\x{0000}\x{FEFF}\x{200B}-\x{200D}]', ""))
;~  \x{0000}    NULL
;~  \x{FEFF}    ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE
;~  \x{200B}    ZERO WIDTH SPACE
;~  \x{200C}     ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
;~  \x{200D}     ZERO WIDTH JOINER

..should it be moved to examples ?   

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