[alicebot-developer] A.L.I.C.E Web page Spider

[Stef]

Those strange characters are likely to be the problem.  Easy test, just 
remove those extraneous characters and see how you go.

Cheers,
Stefan Zakarias.

Ty Ademosu wrote:
> I have a prototype in vb6 working.  The output file looks like this
> 
> <pattern>What is the purpose of the talk.origins Usenet
> newsgroup?%</pattern>
> 
> <pattern>What is the purpose of the Talk.Origins Archive?#!</pattern>
> 
> 
> As you can see above
> some of the questions do have strange characters after them like !, # etc 
> could this be the problem or just bad formatting or are questions too long.