>>Hi All
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>>I am receiving text (TXT) files from a 3rd party entity. I read the file in using FILETOSTR(), amend it, and then write it out to another TXT file using STRTOFILE(). Someone has now asked me what character set we are using for the output file. How do I find that out or answer this question?
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>>TIA
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>FILETOSTR() / STRTOFILE() work on plain bytes. They do not do any conversion. IOW you can read a binary as well.
>If you do not play around with stuff related to that problem the right answer would be: The output file has the same codepage as the input - if any.

IOW, what Borislav said is still true, not because of anything that these two functions do, but because of how the app composed the string. If there were any characters in it which were codepage specific, they were done according to those settings, and written into the file as bytes.