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Re: Weirdness reading integers from strings



> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 91 09:31:55 EDT
> From: cornell@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Matthew Cornell)
> 
> ? (setf str (subseq "noHardwareErr                   -200       Required sound hardware not available"
>           32 36))
> "-200"

Are you sure the first character in this string is a standard dash
(ascii 45)?  On the Mac, it might be an n-dash (ascii 208) or
an m-dash (ascii 209).