Originally Posted by RwCC

Ok I am rather confused about what you want, so the Ú is not meant to be there but is added when you read?

Originally Posted by RwCC

Im still a little unsure of the problem (doing many things at once, not good!). Is it happening like this:

original file
Hello There

file contents from S/Reader
HelloÚThere

Is that how it is coming across? I used to get problems with Stream Reader This code (which is basically the same as yours) works fine without any strange additional characters:

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System.IO.StreamReader StreamReader1 =
            new System.IO.StreamReader("myfile.txt");
            String data = StreamReader1.ReadToEnd();
            textBox.Text = data;
            StreamReader1.Close();

System.IO.StreamReader StreamReader1 = new System.IO.StreamReader("myfile.txt"); String data = StreamReader1.ReadToEnd(); textBox.Text = data; StreamReader1.Close();