StreamWriter.WriteLine() vs .Write("\n") and missing newlines when writing to files with the later

[Fred Dag]

Hi,
When writing using both these methods ( StreamWriter.Write("\n") vs
WriteLine() ) to a file and open in Notepad I see a special character
instead of newlines with Write("\n") vs a newline with WriteLine().

How do I insert characters into a string ( ie "line 1\nline 2\n" ) so that
when I write them to Stream they will be interpreted properly as newlines?

Thanks in advance

 

[Peter Duniho]

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How do I insert characters into a string ( ie "line 1\nline 2\n" ) so that
when I write them to Stream they will be interpreted properly as newlines?

Notepad doesn't understand a single newline character by itself. You need a
carriage return as well ("\r\n").

Alternatively, you can open your file in WordPad, which does treat the
single newline character as a line break.

Pete

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

[...]
How do I insert characters into a string ( ie "line 1\nline 2\n" ) so that
when I write them to Stream they will be interpreted properly as newlines?

Notepad doesn't understand a single newline character by itself. You need a
carriage return as well ("\r\n").

"line 1\r\nline 2" or if one is a portability pedantic
"line 1" + Environment.NewLine + "line 2".

Arne