CharToNum Depricated??

[Bob Sneidar]

OK so I determined that the native export file from the Toshiba Address Book Export is putting some non-display (probably unicode) characters at the beginning of the file. They don’t appear in any text editor but they are there because when I do a char by char comparison, the very first char in the Toshiba Export file is a question mark. 

Is there any way to ignore that exterraneous data when reading the file? 

Bob S