Android Question How to remove ASCII65279 from string

[Roger Daley]

Hi All,

Without distracting you with the in's and out's, my program reads a line of text from a file that can be edited by the user. If the user uses notepad or notepad++ ASCII65279 [Non printable char] can be added to the start of the line. As I do a "string" comparison this extra char throws everything out of wack.

The question is, once I have read the line of text how do I remove ASCII65279?
I have tried Riedlyne

Riedlyne = Riedlyne.Replace(Asc(65279),"")

without success.
I could test with something like

if (Asc(Riedlyne.CharAt(0))) = 65279 then DoSomething

to produce alternative string comparisons but that is messy.

Regards Roger

 

[DonManfred]

I suggest to save the file without BOM in your texteditor (see options).
Maybe upload such a text file so we can have a look

 

[Roger Daley]

Thanks DonManfred but unfortunately the user gets to edit the text file. I can only have the program deal with the problem if it happens

Roger

 

[stevel05]

Then Try

Riedlyne = Riedlyne.Replace(Chr(65279),"")

 

[Roger Daley]

Thanks stevel05,

Worked perfectly. Like many things, it's obvious we someone else points you in the right direction.

Regards Roger