Newline characters

Recently, I've been working with taking input from files and putting the output into another file. The problem I've been having is that when I put a newline character into a file using the fputc statement, it just prints a square box (the visible representation of the newline character, I guess?) instead of a new line. Here's a little snippet of what I'm doing that causes this.

Code:

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fputc('\n', ofp);

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It does the same thing with the fprintf statement.

Any ideas as to why it won't just start a new line instead of putting a square box there?

It doesn't put a box. That's the fault of whatever you're using to view your file.


Quzah.

If you're in Windows then try this instead:

Code:

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fputc('\r', ofp);
fputc('\n', ofp);

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Just add the line that sticks the '\r' in there before the line that sticks the '\n' in there.

If you open the file in text mode (on a windows machine), then \r should be stripped when you read it, you'll only see \n and it will be added when you print a \n (\r\n appears in the file).