writing a newline to a file doesn't actually output a new line

for some reason no matter when I put endl or \n a new line is not created in the text file. Instead it just puts a little box where the new line character is, but it doesn't actually go to a newline in the text file. This is in notepad

Does this work for you? It should be this simple...

Code:

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#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main( void )
{
  ofstream fout( "MyFile.txt" );

  fout << "Hello World!! \n";
  fout << "This is line #2" << endl;
  fout << "This is line #3";

  fout.close();

  return 0;
}

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Yeah that works. I'm doing it differently because you cannot call ios::read and store it an unsigned char * array, but at least I know why its doing it

Code:

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#include <fstream.h>


int main( void )
{
        ofstream fout( "MyFile.txt", ios::out | ios::binary );

  fout << "Hello World!! \n";
  fout << "This is line #2" << endl;
  fout << "This is line #3";

  fout.close();

  return 0;
}

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You open the file as binary, not text. That's your problem!
(newlines are for textfiles only)

>>You open the file as binary, not text.

It might work on some OSes, but on Windows a newline is actually two characters in a row, carriage return and line feed. So if you use '\n' in a binary file, it will most likely just output the carriage return.

>>So if you use '\n' in a binary file, it will most likely just output the carriage return
\n is a newline, \r is for carriage return. To do what the OP wants, use \r\n instead of just \n, but of course this isn't portable.