Re: write into a file

From: Andrew Thompson (SeeMySites_at_www.invalid)
Date: 02/08/04 

Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 09:49:41 GMT

Tor Iver Wilhelmsen wrote:
> ionalia123@hotmail.com (Junior) writes:
>
>> can somebody help me with write file ? i am trying to do print '\n'
>> (enter) into .txt file(i try to open use note pad), but somehow it
>> doesn't work.
>
> Yes it does, it's Notepad that doesn't work. Notepad only accepts
> "\r\n" as line ending, treating a single "\n" as an unprintable
> character.

Most Windows based editors are not
broken like NotePad. Having said that,
you cen get the default system 'new line'
using

System.getProperty( "line.separator");

I would still recommend using another
editor though. 

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