The issue here is not the file, but the way you're reading it. There are no newline characters in the file, it's just a long string with the fields delineated with spaces. If you open it in a GUI text editor this will break lines according to its own rules. Stuart and Kitz - if you open it in Wordpad you won't see any leading spaces. Or any of you could open it in Libre Office Writer, and again there won't be any leading spaces. Change the font size and you'll see that the line breaks are in different places.
I don't use wordpad. I use various text editors which don't add their own spacing such as notepad++ and glogg.
No matter what I do, I always see the same format.
I've tried stretching the page width. Ive tried changing the fonts. Ive turned font wrap on and off. I even dug out word pad to view in that but its still the same.
I attach below various screen caps which show the issue.
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1) Viewing in glogg. Note 00:00 & 00:01 are always on the same line. I can stretch and change the format but the issue remains
2) Viewing in notepad++ with wordwrap off
3) Installed wordpad. Issue still there
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4) Viewing in notepad++ showing 00:00 and 00:01 on same line. CRLF separates for 00:02 onwards
5) Viewing in notepad++ showing 00:00 and 00:01 has three spaces