StringBuilder to Text

[Guest]

Hello, I a m building an email message in a StringBuilder Object and then
using the StringBuilder ToString() method to get it to regular text. It
appears to me that when I place a "\n" into the Stringbuilder object that
when this is translated into text, I loose the page break. Is this true and
I doing something wrong?

I'm guessing that I could insert a special character into the StringBuilder
object and then use the string Replace() method to translate that special
character into a "\n" and perhaps this would work.

Just wondering why it does not work when I place that value into the
StringBuilder Object.

Thanks

 

[Peter Rilling]

How are you noticing that you loose the break? In what context is this
happening?

 

[Vagabond Software]

Have you considered using Environment.Newline instead of "\n"?

Example:

StringBuilder textBuilder = new StringBuilder(512);
textBuilder.Append("Dear John,");
textBuilder.Append(Environment.Newline)

Perhaps that will help.

carl

 

[Remy]

Try Environment.NewLine

Remy

 

[Guest]

I am loosing the page break when I use the StringBuilder ToString() method
when I am formatting an email message. I will try the Environment.NewLine()
method and see if that retains the line break.

 

[Peter Rilling]

Does the StringBuilder cause the newline disappear, or is it something with
the mail component. What happens if you just set the
StringBuilder.ToString() to a variable and looked at it, is the newline
gone?

 

[Edwin Knoppert]

I assume you are using c?

If you pass "\n" you'll get newline > chr(10)
If you want "\n" you might consider to use "\\n"
(Outlook express mangels this for me, use slash twice)