Error recognizing numbers in text file encoded UCS-2-LE-BOM

[holmch11]

 I am trying to convert a peak area and height read in from a GC file (.csv) from string into a number.  The only way Labview will read in the file is as a string, I have tried many other read options.  I have tried a number of ways to attack this, but in the end it appears that the file encoding (UCS-2-LE-BOM) is to blame and creates spaces between numbers that Labview does not recognize.  I have tried a program to remove the spaces, they are not seen.  If I externally convert with notepad ++ the file to ANSI, everything works fine.  This isn't practical for my application.  Any thoughts on a workaround that I haven't tried?

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi holmch,

the quick&dirty workaround:

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@holmch11 wrote:

the file encoding (UCS-2-LE-BOM) is to blame and creates spaces between numbers that Labview does not recognize.  I have tried a program to remove the spaces, they are not seen.

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There are no spaces between the chars, these are bytes containing the value 00h…