Read Text File - first line has extra char

[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?

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

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

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

[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.

[cbpetro]

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.

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

Thanks.

[Paul McKenzie]

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?

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