Thread: end of line in text file

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    end of line in text file

    While reading a text file,
    Is there a way to directly reach the end of line in a text file....? using fseek or some other function ?
    Is '\n' a standard to look for the end of the line?

    Are the delimiters(\n, \t, \l, \0) used differently for different kind of text files ?
    e.g., for html file, doc file, txt file....

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    > Is there a way to directly reach the end of line in a text file....?
    Only by using fgets(), and that actually reads the newline rather than stopping at the newline.

    > Is '\n' a standard to look for the end of the line?
    Yes, if you use fopen()
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    Quote Originally Posted by Salem
    > Is '\n' a standard to look for the end of the line?
    Yes, if you use fopen()
    ...without the 'b' in the mode string (i.e. "r" instead of "rb")
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    using fseek
    Not using fseek, since you shouldn't use it in text mode. Simply read characters until you find the newline character. Or you could simply call fgets in a similar fashion.


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    don't forget, \n is newline and carriage return in macos, and *x.
    in an ascii dos text there is also the \r for the carriage return to get back to left side of screen.
    it can be important, when displaying the contents.. people would be wondering what the \r was from.
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    > in an ascii dos text there is also the \r for the carriage return to get back to left side of screen
    Which is why the standard routines map \x\y\z or whatever the native convention for the OS is into a standard \n.
    Then you don't have to worry about it anymore, and you just stick to \n
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