Spaces don't look like spaces?

spacely

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Hello,

I am putting together a string, and using the print statement to output to a file.

I have an equation in the cell that I want to print out. The equation results in a string. That string has general characters, and spaces in it, and looks fine in excel. I use the following to print to file, using VBA:

theString = Cells(i, 6).Value
myFile = "myfile.json"
Open myFile For Output As #1
Print #1 , Replace(theString, vbLf, vbCrLf)
Close #1

All the characters in the resulting string-in-file are OK, except the spaces. And only when I load the file into Visual Studio Code, which is a good json file editor. In another text editor, the spaces look like spaces.

I cannot be sure I really have spaces where I should have spaces.

Can you help?
 

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I solved it. I cut and pasted spaces from another App where apparently they don't past into excel as actual spaces. I had to hand-type in all the spaces in the excel cells.
 
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could you not replace the special character space with a regular space instead of hand typing everything?
vba syntax would be: replace(cell," " (special space), " ")
or vice versa.

might help you down the road if the problem occurs again
 
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