Gene Osteen wrote:
>              I use the split command to tell me how many fields are in a 
>  line of text sent to me. The data is character delimited with a Ã? as the 
>  delimiter. Each line of text ends with a Ã?. Normally if I do a split I 
>  get one more list element than there are fields. I have a case where 
>  this is not happening. I am including 2 examples. The first is not 
>  working as expected the line of data is:
>  
>  314185798Ã?59858Ã?2004-11-19Ã?2004-11-19 23:08:00Ã? KPFS-IN 
>  NCAL-INTERFACEÃ?121314Ã?121314Ã?121314Ã?
>  
>  For some reason the list length here is 8 which is also the number of Ã?s 
>  in the line.

I don't have the same issue, getting the expected correct results with 
8.4.18 and 8.5.2:

(Tcl) 49 % set str {314185798Ã?59858Ã?2004-11-19Ã?2004-11-19 23:08:00Ã? 
KPFS-IN NCAL-INTERFACEÃ?121314Ã?121314Ã?121314Ã?}
314185798Ã?59858Ã?2004-11-19Ã?2004-11-19 23:08:00Ã? KPFS-IN 
NCAL-INTERFACEÃ?121314Ã?121314Ã?121314Ã?
(Tcl) 50 % regexp -all Ã? $str
8
(Tcl) 51 % llength [split $str Ã?]
9
(Tcl) 52 % split $str Ã?
314185798 59858 2004-11-19 {2004-11-19 23:08:00} { KPFS-IN 
NCAL-INTERFACE} 121314 121314 121314 {}

Jeff
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