Question

File.WriteAllText is inserting a space after every letter and quotation.

Example:

Original File

"JobID" "ParentJobID"

New File

" J o b I D "    " P a r e n t J o b I D "

CODE

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ProcessOutputLogTransfer
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            string content = File.ReadAllText(@"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\MSFax\ActivityLog\OutboxLOG.txt");

        File.WriteAllText(@"C:\FAXLOG\OutboxLOG.txt", content, Encoding.UTF8);
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

I don’t think it’s WriteAllText that’s doing this. I believe it’s ReadAllText, which defaults to reading using UTF-8 – I suspect your OutboxLOG.txt file is actually written in UTF-16, instead. Try this:

string inputPath = @"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\"
                 + @"Microsoft\Windows NT\MSFax\ActivityLog\OutboxLOG.txt";
string outputPath = @"C:\FAXLOG\OutboxLOG.txt";

string content = File.ReadAllText(inputPath, Encoding.Unicode);
File.WriteAllText(outputPath, content, Encoding.UTF8);