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There's almost no formatting (except for the header and I believe that's the problem I'm running into). I can do a filereadline (fileread fails to get past ÐÏࡱá) and it gives me everything but the first line... which is what I want to read. If I do a filereadline from lines 1-2 I get

ÐÏà¡±á            HOWARD COUNTY PUBLIC RECORDS
            WARRANTY DEED

What I should've gotten (based on opening it in notepad) was

ÐÏà¡±á                >  þÿ                   b          e      þÿÿÿ    a   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿì¥Á €      ð¿             €>   bjbjBrBr                       8^      r6      
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  Ð      Ð      !      Ð      Ð                                      Ð      Ð      Ð      j+      j+                                      !                                      Ð      Ð      Ð      Å+      Ð      Ð      Ð      Ð              ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ            ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ    ÿÿÿÿ    W0      Ð      Ð      Ð      Ð      Ð      Ð                                                              Ð      Ð      Ð      Â        Ë  :                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               NOV 10, 2012        HALL COUNTY AREA BULLETIN            PAGE        1
            HOWARD COUNTY PUBLIC RECORDS
            WARRANTY DEED

Opening the file in notepad, the line has a ton of encoding (a lot more than what was outputted by filereadline) and it eventually gets to a regular string, however my output never gets to that string. Any ideas why filereadline won't get to the actual end of the line and stops at what was outputted?

Edited by Mechaflash
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“Hello, ladies, look at your man, now back to me, now back at your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped using ladies scented body wash and switched to Old Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re on a boat with the man your man could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an oyster with two tickets to that thing you love. Look again, the tickets are now diamonds. Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady. I’m on a horse.”

 

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