Text problem

[Anonymous]

When opening an ascii file using 2008 the line it reads is converted to junk.
Here is a snippet:

(setq fn (open "c:\\braintree\\a.txt" "r"))

(while (setq s (read-line fn)) ;read a.txt and create a list of the drawings

(if (= plan 1)…….rest of code

The file a.txt looks like:

H12
L12
H13

If I look at the variable s it looks like "ÿþH\0001\0002\000" instead of "H12".

Have you got any ideas?

[Anonymous]

When you save the txt file make sure you set encoding to ANSI and not
Unicode.

Murph

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When opening an ascii file using 2008 the line it reads is converted to
junk.
Here is a snippet:

(setq fn (open "c:\\braintree\\a.txt" "r"))

(while (setq s (read-line fn)) ;read a.txt and create a list of the
drawings

(if (= plan 1)...rest of code

The file a.txt looks like:

H12
L12
H13

If I look at the variable s it looks like "ÿþH\0001\0002\000" instead of
"H12".

Have you got any ideas?

[Anonymous]

Can you give me an example of setting the encoding?

[Anonymous]

Don't know how you are creating the txt file but if you open it in Notepad
when you saveas it gives you the option.

Murph

wrote in message news:5840898@discussion.autodesk.com...
Can you give me an example of setting the encoding?