Android Question the first character in text file

Erel

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• Dec 27, 2016

• #2

You will need to upload an example (File - Export as zip).

 

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khwarizmi

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• Dec 27, 2016

• #3

this is a sample

 

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• textfile.zip

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klaus

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• Dec 27, 2016

• #4

The problem is that the file has the BOM characters at the beginning!
These are added if you save a file with UTF-8 encoding in Windows.
Attached the same text file saved without BOM with Notepad++.

 

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• rtf1new.txt

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Erel

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• Dec 27, 2016

• #5

Complete code that also removes the BOM character:

B4X:

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
   For Each line As String In File.ReadList(File.DirAssets, "rtf1.txt")
     If line.StartsWith(Chr(0xFEFF)) Then line = line.SubString(1)
     Dim ls1 As List = Regex.Split(" ", line)
     Log(line)
     For Each s As String In ls1
       Log(s & CRLF & s.Length)
     Next
   Next
End Sub

Note that you should never use TextReader (or TextWriter) unless you need to read a non UTF8 file.

 

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khwarizmi

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• Dec 28, 2016

• #6

very great information!!
thank you very much Klaus and Erel

 

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