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how to get rid of those annoying 3 encoding characters written at the start of a text file

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If your text file looks like

TEXT

or similar the you have generated encoding characters, to generate the file without them use

Dim TextString As String = “TEXT”
My .Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText(“C:\TEXT.TXT” , TextString, False, System.Text.Encoding.ASCII)

the Default option will encode in ANSI, but still provide the encoding string.

Written by fisherpeter

2010 August 11 at 10:56

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