[RESOLVED] [2.0] New line

[OMITT3D]

In notepad if I use "\r" it looks like this:
Z:\Musak\ACDC - Back In Black.mp3
Z:\Musak\ACDC - Big Balls.mp3
Z:\Musak\ACDC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt.mp3
Z:\Musak\ACDC - Hells Bells.mp3

In wordpad:
Z:\Musak\ACDC - Back In Black.mp3 Z:\Musak\ACDC - Big Balls.mp3 Z:\Musak\ACDC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt.mp3 Z:\Musak\ACDC - Hells Bells.mp3


\n in word pad does:
Z:\Musak\ACDC - Back In Black.mp3

Z:\Musak\ACDC - Big Balls.mp3

Z:\Musak\ACDC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt.mp3

Z:\Musak\ACDC - Hells Bells.mp3

and in note pad it leaves like ascii char 13 or something on the end of each line. What is with this how can I make it look good in all text editors..

[jmcilhinney]

The proper line break sequence for Windows text files is a carriage return followed by a line feed. The escape character for a carriage return is '\r' and the escape character for a line feed is '\n', thus the proper escape sequence for Windows text files is "\r\n". I tested that and it looked the way it should in both Notepad and WordPad. Note also that if you have a string array you could use the IO.File.WriteAllLines method and avoid line breaks and StreamWriters yourself altogether.

[sunburnt]

You might also just grab the value of the Environment.NewLine string and use that -- it will return whatever the appropriate new line character(s) are for whatever platform your program is currently running on.