Unicode perhaps? Are they nulls? What are your text item delimiters set to? On Jan 31, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote: > Interesting development. > > I used this script two years ago to process data. > > I'm trying to use it again and NOW wherever I attempt to pull a > string from out of another string using... > > set thisString to (characters x through y of thatString) as string > > thisString has got a tab showing up after every character in the > extracted string. > > What's going on? > -Mark What's a computer scientist's favorite herb? Parse-ly