Re: xml file with invalid characters at the start of the stream file

Thanks Steve,

I am using SK's HTTPAPIR4 service program that retrieves the xml file.

Don't suppose you would know how to set

UTF8Encoding(false)

I tried setting the file type to text/xml but that did not change anything.

Thanks
Don
Don Brown

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Subject: RE: xml file with invalid characters at the start of the stream file

Don -

that's a BOM (Byte Order Mark)

This may shed some additional light on the subject:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44098326/ef-bb-bf-at-the-beginning-of-json-files-created-in-visual-studio

Regards,
Steve


Don Brown wrote:
I am sure I have seen this question asked before but searching has not found it.
We are using httpapi to retrieve a list of files that is returned in xml
The xml file saved to the ifs has the following leading characters that then results into xml-into failing.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
In case these characters get corrupted in the email / forum they are hex x'EFBBBF'
A valid xml file must start with a < so we can't just blank these characters out.
And xml-into does not allow a substring that I have found.
So if I can't stop the invalid characters how would I shift the contents of the stream file left by 3 characters or I expect there is a better option ?

Thank you to any suggestions or examples.

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