Ah, thanks, I understand now :)

It isn't the number 26, its the ascii character that has a decimal value 26. This is written to a text file but is read back as the decimal value 10.

Hi, I'm trying to read a series of ascii characters from a text file as their corresponding decimal integers. However when I try to read in the # 26 it is read in as a # 10 and no further characters...