Good day,
I am tasked with parsing a text file and adore V. Anyways, see the below pic. The flat file is delimited by a square character. What is this character called? I can't find it in any Hex charts. I'm just not sure how I can reference it in my code in order to parse?
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What is this symbol?
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Re: What is this symbol?
Bytes in a file can be one of 256 characters (hex codes 00 to FF), however, not all characters are printable.The flat file is delimited by a square character. What is this character called?
What is displayed for an unprintable character depends on the font used to view the file - but most fonts will display the square character.
To see the hex code of the character, you could view the file in Vertical Hex Mode (Alt+J). The 2 lines underneath the text line contain the corresponding hex code for each character.
Alternatively, you can simply left-click on the box character, and while the button is clicked, the hex (and decimal) character code will be displayed in the bottom left of the status bar.