StringWriter to Text file

[Robert Linder]

I am trying to write
'StringWriter SW = new StringWriter();' to a FileStream.
The code writes the text to file, but NotePad does not see the NewLines.

Below is the code snippet taken from a large project

////////////// Main ////////////////////////////////////////
StringWriter DataWriter ;

this.FileOut = new FileStream( @"c:\RegChk.txt" ,FileMode.Create );
this.BinaryOut = new BinaryWriter( this.FileOut );
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StringWriter SW = new StringWriter();
this.SetWriter(SW);
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SW.Close();

StringBuilder bu = SW.GetStringBuilder();
string dataSW = bu.ToString() ;

// print only of there is data
if ( dataSW.Length.Equals(0).Equals(false) )
{
string rKeyString = "Registry Key '"+rkeyName+"'\n";
this.BinaryOut.Write( rKeyString);
this.BinaryOut.Write(dataSW);
this.BinaryOut.Write("\n");
this.BinaryOut.Flush();
}
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public void SetWriter( StringWriter dataOut )
{
try
{
if ( ! dataOut.Equals(null) )
{
this.DataWriter = dataOut;
}
}
catch( System.NullReferenceException )
{
// error
}
}


private void PrintData( string msg , string key , string data )
{
this.DataWriter.Write( msg );
this.DataWriter.Write( " '");
this.DataWriter.Write( key );
this.DataWriter.Write( "' '");
this.DataWriter.Write( data );
this.DataWriter.Write( "\n");
}

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Robert,

Don't write "\n". Try using Environment.NewLine, and that should work.

Hope this helps.

 

[Jochen Kalmbach]

The code writes the text to file, but NotePad does not see the
NewLines.
[...]
this.BinaryOut.Write("\n");
[...]
this.DataWriter.Write( "\n");

Notepad does NOT use "\n" as line sparator!
Instead use: "\r\n" !

--
Greetings
Jochen

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http://www.codeproject.com/tools/leakfinder.asp

 

[Robert Linder]

The Solution:
I added 'this.NL = Environment.NewLine;' to my code and replaced
Write("\n") with Write(this.NL)

Output is looks good in Notepad and gvim.

Thanks