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Subject: console.strlen(text) vs. strip_ctrl(text).length Date: Mon Jan 05 2015 19:55:16
From: Nightfox To: Digital Man

  Re: console.strlen(text) vs. strip_ctrl(text).length
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Jan 05 2015 17:01:28

 >> Makes sense.  The ASCII values (in decimal) are 16, 17, 24, and 25.

 DM> Yup, those are control character. You can't really rely on them being
 DM> displayed as printable characters (aka 'glyphs') in the terminal. If you
 DM> try different terminal programs, you'll likely see different/inconsistent
 DM> results. 

I see.  I'll have to give that a try.

Nightfox

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