Thread: fprintf not printing newline

I have searched around and have found that this is a pretty common error, but fprintf isn't printing newline/return carriages.

Code:

FILE *index;
index = fopen("index.html", "w");
fprintf(index, "Website Information: \n");
fclose(index);

I have tried w, w+, wb for the file type.
I have tried \n, \r, \r\n for the newline/return commands.

Nothing is working.

I am running NetBeans on windows, compiling using cygwin.

Thanks for any help.

Originally Posted by oogabooga

If it's a common problem, what are the common solutions?

Well, if any of them worked I wouldn't have posted this. The solutions I saw were to try what I mentioned above, i.e. the different file types and the different commands for newline/carriage return.

But none of those would change anything. I ran your program and it worked just fine (file ends 0x0D 0x0A). Maybe it's a NetBeans problem?

Well it is compiled with Cygwin, NetBeans shouldn't cause this error. And the difference in \r and \n would change things. Linux expects \n, windows \r\n and mac \r, so this could effect things.
NOTE: I tried writing to index.txt as well, not returning the newline.

When opened in text mode on windows printing a \n actually outputs a \r\n, as it did for me. But still, your problem is a strange one.