[thelist] Weird Data from Text File: 
Rick den Haan
rick.denhaan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 04:00:47 CDT 2008
Casey Crookston wrote:
> Hey there, I'm seeing something really odd in a pretty simple select
> I'm doing out of a comma delimited text file:
>
> Here is what I saw for the first column's name:
>
> Advertiser
>
> I have NO idea where the  is coming from! It most certainly is not
> in the text file!!!
>
> Any ideas?
Looks like an encoding mix-up to me. I sometimes get the same thing when
opening text files created in a UNIX-environment in Windows Notepad. Always
at the beginning of the file.
That code looks like .NET to me, so it's most likely running on a Windows
machine. Were the text files created on a Mac or *nix machine by any
chance? If so, see if it helps to save it in Windows or MS-DOS encoding.
HTH,
Rick.
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