Problem reading text file

CVI programmer for several years, but it has been awhile. Trying to read in a text file that displays fine in say Notepad. The first line of text in the file is:

All temperatures in ° F.

If I use the scan function, say:

public static char cdum [2048];

ScanFile (DataFile, "%s > %s", cdum); I get these results:

cdum [0] is - 2

cdum [1] is 65 (which is the ASCII character 'A')

The rest of the cdum is all zeros.

In a hex editor in decimal display grouped by bytes, the line is:

0 255 254 65 0 108 0 108 0 32 0 116 0 101 0 109 0 112... as the display looks like

ybA.l.l.. t.e.m.p.e.r.a.t.u.r.e.s.. i.n.. °. F....

So I get the scan function is to see the start character, then by pulling the 65 and placing in the location cdum [1], then strikes the character 0 and leaves the function of scan as she found an end of line. Trying to read in the entire line and the subsequent data float line, but is not serious, I can understand that our after I get over the initial problem above.

Can someone help me with this? I have no problem reading in ordinary text files, but this one is as it is grouped in words rather than in bytes. Have you tried a bunch of different Scan function modifiers source and target [xt0, w #, etc.], but nothing seems to work.

Data file attached.

Thank you-

Scott

Hello

I downloaded your file, it is opened in Excel because of its extension and the settings on my computer. I then wanted to save it as a text file normal to see in Notepad and read with a simple C program. In doing so, Excel told me: some features in your workbook may be lost if you save it in Unicode text.

This is consistent with your observation of 16-bit data.

LabWindows/CVI, unfortunately, does not support the Unicode character set and functions of the library operated at only 8-bit characters.

So I would say to convert your file to 8-bit characters; You can also support the pursuit of the Unicode support in CVI here

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