Thread: notepad doesn't recognize new line character

Hi,

I'm not sure this is really a programming issue, but I will give it a try here. I'm outputting data formatted kind of like a table to a file. When opened with notepad, the data is all on one line and where there should be a new line a block character is present (showing that it's an unrecognized character or something). When opened with wordpad, it displays just fine. Would there be something wrong in my code? I'm simply output '\n' when i want a new line.

Thanks. How would I know how the file is opened? The output file is given as a command line argument and ends with .txt...

No, i only have a w in the file, so I don't know what's going on.

Here is the function that outputs it to the file:

Code:

void output_maze(char *maze, int xWidth, int yWidth, FILE *mazeFile)
{
	int new_line_counter = 1;  		//-index tracker
	int full_size = xWidth*yWidth - 1;	//-full size of array	
	for (int i=full_size; i>=0; i--)
	{
		//-if at the end of row, print new line after char
		if (new_line_counter%xWidth==0) 
		{
			fprintf(mazeFile, "%c\n", maze[i]);
		}
		else
		{
			fprintf(mazeFile, "%c ", maze[i]);
		}
		new_line_counter++;		//-increment the counter
	}
}

opening the file:

Code:

FILE *mazeFile = fopen(fileName,"w");

Yes! cygwin-gcc

Try opening the file in textpad. Notepad wont recognize that the file was in linux, but textpad will.

I'm running cygwin on windows. If the same program was run and compiled on linux, would it work? And yes, it works perfectly in wordpad.

This is an assignment, so do you think when i turn it in it won't matter (as in they have it set up correctly)?