Trouble in Root

[Wile_E_Coyote]

The first three bytes of the attached “week3_data.txt” file are “invisible” 0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF. You need to remove them.

String to const char* for FindObject

@panagiotis_bellos Also, for future reference (and similar issues), if a string is coming from a text file, you might also need to ensure that the file was not written using a multi-byte encoding. That might be especially confusing, as your terminal emulator might still render the “expected” character sequence, while the null-terminated C string that you are passing contains extra bytes.