Steve,

Most likely it's a chr(26) (End-of-file marker). You can find out exactly what it is with ? asc( right( mText, 1 ) ). You can use mText = CHRTRAN( mText, chr(26), "" ) to get rid of it.

>In my editbox I have text displayed that was built using a SET ALTERNATE ON textfile. The text looks fine, except at the end of the text there appears an unknown character.
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>The character is a square or rectangular-shaped box about the same size as a text character. I assume it's a hard return or carriage rerturn character symbol.
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>Does anybody know how I can get rid of it? It shows up in all of my editboxes that are built this way.