#1063 \n under windows just a linefeed?

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lel4866 Mon 5 Apr 2010

When I use printLine (or print with the string ending in \n) to a file under Windows 7, I just get a linefeed, not a carriage-return and linefeed.

Is this intended? Is there a property I need to set?

Thanks.

BTW, it would be nice if I could search the website discussions by title only, not the whole post

tactics Mon 5 Apr 2010

Fantom doesn't currently support changing of line endings on it's IO streams.

If you need to print a Windows-style newline, print whatever and then print("\r\n") at the end of it. You can even chain these together:

myLines.each |line|
{
  out.print(line).print("\r\n")
}

This might be something to consider adding later. Even if we change it, newlines will continue to haunt programmers for the rest of time ;)

lel4866 Tue 6 Apr 2010

I'm fine with that.

lineend := (Env.cur.os == "win32") ? "\r\n" : "\n" // should this just be "win" now?

turns out jruby 1.4 does the same thing - only outputs linefeeds by default

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