Reading a notes field with GetItemValue returns a string with extra line breaks

hcl-bot · January 27, 2011, 2:12pm

Hi,

I’m accessing the Notes API via COM in a .NET application. Most of what I do works fine, but I’ve noticed that when I read a field out of a current document with:

therelevantdoc.GetItemValue(“fieldname”)

the string that is returned has many extra line breaks. They seem to occur after 80 chars. They consist of the Ascii values 13 10. There’s no way for me to distinguish these values from real line breaks in the field.

I’ve reproduced this on a Win7 box with Notes 8.5.2, as well as on an XP box with Notes 8.5.1 FP1.

I can reproduce this.

I’ve noticed that others seem to have experienced this as well:

http://dbaspot.com/forums/lotus-notes-programmer/160223-agent-inserts-line-feed-after-reading-first-80-characters.html

Is this expected behavior?

Thanks…

-Ben