Reading the ly files from another program

[Ed Ardzinski]

(v2.6.5 on Windows XP Home)

I am trying to create an editor for the ly files.  Lilypad lacks a few features 
I can easily design using MFC (Visual C++).

I'm running into a problem reading the file into my program.  Seems that there 
is an extra space character inserted in to the last lines.  I don't think this 
is a VC++ issue - when I open the file up in Lilypad, select all with Ctrl+A, 
copy with Ctrl+C, then paste into a fresh and empty notepad document I get this 
extra space.

Is this a bug or designed behavior?  Or has anyone seen this?  I'd really like 
to have an editor with drap/drop and working search/find capacities, and feel 
I'm pretty close to making it work for me.  But this is clearly a problem if I 
can't even read the ly file into my editor properly.

Thanks.