Can't escape spaces using MLstrings

[gordon]

In process globals I have

        Dim str As MLStr

Then elsewhere I have

 Dim finalfrom as string
dim tmp as string
finalfrom=edtfinalfrom.text

tmp=finalfrom

str.Escape(tmp )

finalfrom=tmp

However the white spaces are not being escaped for some reason.

Equally if I try

 str.strip(tmp)

The string remains unchanged.
The MLstring library is installed and working because I can use it to count the words in a string.
Please can someone tell me why this is. many thanks.

 

[Erel]

Try:

tmp = str.Escape(tmp)

 

[gordon]

And that works perfectly. Thank you