I've got a small problem trying to reconstruct a jpg file from a single stream text file. VFP appears to be adding some chars to the mix. To test this hypothesis, I took a good jpg file and read it in to a var using filetostr.

lcfile=filetostr('x.jpg')
Then I created another file using
strtofile(lcfile,'123.jpg',1)
strtofile(lcfile,'123.jpg',1)
strtofile('this is garbage','123.jpg',1)

I would have thought I should be able to write a routine that looked for the jpeg's (SOI) Start of Image [ÿØÿà] and (EOI) End of Image [ÿÙ] and pull the image from the stream. However, this is not working. Even if I get a string using the above search criteria, VFP is adding to the mix.

Has anyone else tackled this problem?

John