Reading the first line of a file (in a zipfile)

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On Apr 11, 1:13 pm, mike.aldr... at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> The first line in the file I am examining will be a number followed by
> more whitespace. Looks like I cannot split by whitespace?

> but I get 'cannot open
> file' when i try to read from an archive..

...and that led you to conclude that you cannot split by whitespace?