Reading ASCII text file?

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Subject: Reading ASCII text file?

Feedback Type: Question

Product Area: Notes Client

Technical Area: Application Development

Platform: Windows

Release: 8.5.2

Reproducible: Always

Hi, I'm working with an ASCII char, space delimited file with this structure:

020401 160.3 ...

Code:
Type Rec
x As String *6 '# of ASCII Characters
y As String *12 'in the "field"
End Type

Sub Initialize
Dim filename As String
dim filenum As Integer
Dim lineIn As String
Dim thisRec As Rec
filename = "C:\SM.txt"
filenum= FreeFile()
Open filename For Random As filenum Len=Len(thisRec)
Get # filenum, ,thisRec
Print thisRec.x, thisrec.y
Close filenum
End Sub

Output:
믯タ〲〴‱† ††㘱⸰″†††㘱⸰‸†

I've tried reading the values as integers and/or single precision numbers, but that produces unexpected results, thus:

-17425 6.48253E-10

Any ideas where I can go with this? Well, other than the obvious...!

Thanks, Lee

Feedback number WEBB8TBPSK created by ~Kelly Pretumibergflar on 04/13/2012

Status: Open
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