Carriage Returns

irlrobins

Anyone know of a way of view the carriage returns of a text file? i.e. to determine if it has a unix style line break or a DOS one? Thanks

R

Ginger

Hmm when I open the file in notepad and see if its blocks..

But isnt the windows default CrLf and Unix is CR?

irlrobins

yep, and i want to be able to determine if a file has one or the other

Ginger

Pseudo

If InStr(CR) && (!InStr(CrLF) or !inStr(LF)) then
   nix
Else
   doze
end if

Very rough code honest.. i shouldnt be watching tv while thinking in pseudo

Ginger

Silly question what language\tech?

irlrobins

Well I was thinking of an application rather than any particular language. Something that would allow me to see the (ASCII?) actual characters.

Inspector Gadget

Most decent editors will tell you this, I think - I know that both UltraEdit and jEdit put this in their status bars. Otherwise, assuming you're using something more sophisticated than notepad, the following guide may be useful:

\r\n (i.e. ASCII 13/xD, ASCII 10/xA, or CR, LF) means DOS/Windows;
\n (i.e. ASCII 10/xA, LF) indicates Unix (and possibly Mac OS X, not certain)
\r (i.e. ASCII 13/xD, CR) on its own indicates Mac (at least, System 9 and earlier)

CR = Carriage Return
LF = Line Feed

(a hangover from the old days of teletypes, this stuff)

Hope this helps,
Gadget

irlrobins

Thanks Gadget, jEdit does it for me.