09-18-2014
Tx for this quick help.
Sometimes a solution is so quite easy....
By the way, my intention to do this is to have a header for the delivery protocol - within this header (the ascii string) are infos for the delivery tool (i.e. the recipient). When the recipient will get this file, before the uncompressing he has to delete the header first...
CU,
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trim - Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning and end of a string
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