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
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