Reading text file in Matlab results in unknown spaces within characters - matlab

I am trying to read a text/csv file in Matlab.The file looks like:
VolumeDisplacement,9783.47
CenterOfBuoyancy,-0.732585,3.16072e-14,-3.09939
WettedSurfaceArea,2709.66
WaterlineLength,102.156
MaximumWaterlineBeam,20.76
WaterPlaneArea,1774.4
CenterOfFloatation,-6.32016,1.00108e-11,0
The file is generated using vbscript in Rhinoceros. I am using the standard method given in the help file, but encountering a weird problem.
filename = 'RhinoResult.txt';
fid = fopen(filename);
line = fgetl(fid);
tline = textscan(line,'%s%d','Delimiter',',');
VolumeDisplacement=tline{2};
But, my results are not as expected. The tline is storing the strings with a space between each character. Also, there are two unknown characters (ÿþ) at the beginning.
tline{1} = 'ÿþV o l u m e D i s p l a c e m e n t '
The VBScript used to create the textfile looks like this:
Sub writeResult(arrResults, filePath, fileName)
Dim objFSO,objFile
Const ForWriting = 2
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(filePath & fileName, _
ForWriting, True)
objFile.Write "VolumeDisplacement," & arrResults(0)
objFile.Writeline
objFile.Write "CenterOfBuoyancy," & arrResults(1)
objFile.Writeline
objFile.Write "WettedSurfaceArea," & arrResults(2)
objFile.Writeline
objFile.Write "WaterlineLength," & arrResults(3)
objFile.Writeline
objFile.Write "MaximumWaterlineBeam," & arrResults(4)
objFile.Writeline
objFile.Write "WaterPlaneArea," & arrResults(5)
objFile.Writeline
objFile.Write "CenterOfFloatation," & arrResults(6)
objFile.Writeline
objFile.Close
End Sub
Can someone help me with this?
Thanks,
Amitava

If you look at the docs, you'll see
object.CreateTextFile(filename[, overwrite[, unicode]])
Your
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(filePath & fileName, _
ForWriting, True)
(probably mis-copied from a .OpenTextFile call) fools .CreateTextFile into using Unicode (evidence: BOM, 'spaces').
So use .CreateTextFile correctly to create (and write to) an ANSI file:
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(filePath & fileName, True, False)

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Error System can't find the file specified
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#Mark Cidade
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