Read Text File - first line has extra char

This should be a trivial excersize, but for some reason I'm getting a problem
when I read a text file. I'm reading a list of strings in text file, with one string per line. The first line has extra characters in the string, the rest of the lines read are fine, and I can't understand where the extra characters come from. Any ideas?

The file format is this...
A
AA
AAN
AAP
AAPL
AAWW
AAXJ
....
...

Code:

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std::vector<std::string> strSymbolList;

std::string s = "";
std::ifstream infile( m_strFileSymbols );
while( std::getline(infile, s) )
{
    strSymbolList.push_back(s);
}
infile.close();

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Is your text file UTF-8-encoded?
If yes, the first character is probably the Byte Order Mark.
Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

If you want to remove it, save the text file explicitly as ANSI.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by TomasRiker

Is your text file UTF-8-encoded?
If yes, the first character is probably the Byte Order Mark.
Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

If you want to remove it, save the text file explicitly as ANSI.

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Yes that did it. The file was exported from MSSQL and that was the problem.

Thanks.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by cbpetro

This should be a trivial excersize, but for some reason I'm getting a problem
when I read a text file. I'm reading a list of strings in text file, with one string per line. The first line has extra characters in the string, the rest of the lines read are fine, and I can't understand where the extra characters come from. Any ideas?

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It would help if you attached the actual file you're reading instead of typing in what you think is in the file. The character may be a non-visible control character or some other character that you do not expect.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie