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Re: Weirdness reading integers from strings
- To: cornell@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Matthew Cornell)
- Subject: Re: Weirdness reading integers from strings
- From: alms (Andrew LM Shalit)
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 91 09:45:17 EST
- Cc: bug-mcl@cambridge.apple.com, info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com
> 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).