Dan Paul Smith

Interface and visualisation developer.

Showing posts with label Winge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winge. Show all posts

Wednesday, 15 December 2010

The character who wasn't there

I use an app called Coda to write code - every so often (once a day perhaps), a sneaky invisible character appears in my code - specifically after the opening bracket of an "if" statement ( "if(...){" ) - which causes my code to break without any debug/error information at all. I usually have to manually scroll through the relevant code I was working on using the arrow keys until my claret (the cursor that appears when you type) appeared to "hit a wall" - as in it wouldn't scroll left or right even though I was pressing the key's alternatively.



I have no idea what this character is apart from that it's HEX code is "08" - and I've captured it here in between the letters "s" and "a":



sa



So from now on I can just search for this invisible character within my code when something isn't working - but thought it was worth writing about to see if anyone else has experienced an invisible character while coding before? An annoying time waster.