I'm exporting text to a file in C# using System.IO.File.AppendAllText, and passing in the text file, and then the text I want to export with \n added to the end. When I view the text document, they are not on different lines, although that pesky return-line character is there between the lines. So the system may think it's two line, but a user sees it as one. How can this be fixed automatically without doing a find-replace every time I generate a file?
System.IO.File.AppendAllText(#"./WarningsLog.txt", line + "\n");
You need to use the Environment.NewLine instead of \n, because newline can be more than that. in windows (if I'm not mistaken), the default is actually \r\n
Although, using \r\n, will help you temporary, using Environment.NewLine is the proper way to go
First off, there are a couple of ways to represent the new line.
The most commonly used are:
The unix way - to write the \n character. \n here represents the newline character.
The windows way - to write the \r\n characters. \r here goes for the carriage return character.
If you are writing something platform-independent, Environment.NewLine will do the job for you and pick the correct character(s).
MSDN states it represents:
A string containing "\r\n" for non-Unix platforms, or a string containing "\n" for Unix platforms.
Also, in some cases you may want to use System.IO.File.AppendAllLines that takes an IEnumerable<string> as the lines collection and appends it to the file. It uses Environment.NewLine inside.
You could try building this with some file specific characters checks , like
new line, tab , etc....
Here is an example code which checks for new line and tabs :
public static string Replace()
{
string rLower = words.ToLower().Replace(Environment.NewLine, "<replaced_newLine>");
rLower = rLower.Replace("\t", "<replaced_Tabulation>");
return rLower;
}
Of course you might have a lot of different combinations , where an item that needs to be changed is followed by " " or "\n" or "\r\n" or "\t"
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I'm a newbie in C# programming, and I don't understand how character escaping works. I tried many of them, but only '\t' works like it should.
An example for my code:
textBox1.Text = "asd";
textBox1.Text = textBox1.Text + '\n';
textBox1.Text = textBox1.Text + "asd";
MultiLine is enabled, but my output is simply "asdasd" without breaking the line.
I hope some of you knows what the answer is.
You need "\r\n" for a line break in Windows controls, because that's the normal line break combination for Windows. (Line breaks are the bane of programmers everywhere. Different operating systems have different character sequences that they use as their "typical" line breaks.)
"\r\n" is two characters: \r for carriage return (U+000D) and \n for line feed (U+000A). You don't need to do it in three statements though:
textBox1.Text = "First line\r\nSecond line";
Now, I've deliberately gone with \r\n there instead of Environment.NewLine, on the grounds that if you're working with System.Windows.Forms, those will be Windows-oriented controls. It's unclear to me what an implementation of Windows Forms will do on Mac or Linux, where the normal line break is different. (My guess is that a pragmatic implementation will break on any of \r, \n or \r\n, just like TextReader does, for simplicity.)
Sometimes - such as if you're writing a text file for consumption on the same machine - it's good to use Environment.NewLine.
Sometimes - such as when you're implementing a network protocol such as HTTP which mandates a specific line break format - it's good to be explicit about it.
Sometimes - such as in this case - it's just not clear. However, it's always worth thinking about.
For a complete list of escape sequences in C#, you can either look at the C# language specification (always fun!) or look at my Strings article which contains that information and more.
The most legible way to insert a newline in C# is:
textBox1.Text = "asd";
textBox1.Text = textBox1.Text + Environment.NewLine;
textBox1.Text = textBox1.Text + "asd";
This code snippet would set textBox1 text to "asd", then add a newline to it, then on the second line, it would add "asd" again.
The special characters you are confused about are artifacts from when computers used teletype printers for all of their output. Teletype printers predated digital displays by several years.
\n tells the printer (output) to move the print head down one row (new line).
\r tells the printer (output) to move the print head back to the start of the row (carriage return).
Combined, this resulted in the print head being positioned at the start of the next row, ready for output onto clean paper.
Further information can be sought out on the internet with ease, including places such as Wikipedia's NewLine article
Short question: I have a string in my resources: "This is my test string {0}\n\nTest"
I'm trying to display this string in my Messagebox:
MessageBox.Show(String.Format(Properties.Resources.About,
Constants.VERSION),
Properties.Resources.About_Title, MessageBoxButton.OK,
MessageBoxImage.Information);
However I don't get new lines. The \n still show up as characters, not as new lines.
I also tried to use a workaround like mystring.Replace("\n", Environment.NewLine) but this also doesn't change anything.
What am I doing wrong?
Edit: Funny thing to mention: Replace("\n", "somethingelse") doesn't change anything.
Edit2: Shift+Enter in my Resource-File instead of \n seems to work... Strange behaviour anyway
Put a place holder where you want to put new line and in the code where you use that resource string, just replace it with new line: string resource: "This is first line.{0}This is second line.{0}This is third line." You will use this resource string like this: MessageBox.Show(string.Format(MyStringResourceClass.MyStringPropertyName, Environment.NewLine));
OR
Unconventional Method
But i just now got it working by coping newline from word directly (or anyother place) & pasting it inside the resource string file.
It was simple..
OR
\r\n characters will be converted to new line when you display it by using message box or assign it to text box or whenever you use it in interface.
In C# (like most C derived languages), escape characters are used to denote special characters such as return and tab, and + is used in place of & for string concatenation.
To make your code work under C# you’ve got two options... the first is to simply replace the NewLine with the return escape character \n ala:
MessageBox.Show("this is first line" + "\n" + "this is second line");
The other method, and more correct is to replace it instead with Environment.NewLine which theoretically could change depending on the system you are using (however unlikely).
MessageBox.Show("this is first line" + Environment.NewLine + "this is second line");
In the resource editor seperate your string content by using shift+enter. Or else, edit your ResX file in xml editor and using enter key create a new line for your resource string.
Refer this link for detail info: Carriage Return/Line in ResX file.
Try this:
String outputMessage = string.Format("Line 1{0}Line 2{0}Line 3", Environment.NewLine);
MessageBox.Show(outputMessage);
A further example with another variable:
String anotherValue = "Line 4";
String outputMessage = string.Format("Line 1{0}Line 2{0}Line 3{0}{1}", Environment.NewLine, anotherValue);
MessageBox.Show(outputMessage);
Try this
removing the MessageBoxButtons.OK and MessageBoxImage. Information.
MessageBox.Show(String.Format(Properties.Resources.About,
Constants.VERSION),
Properties.Resources.About_Title);
I have a textbox, and I'm trying to print to it with the following line of code:
logfiletextbox.Text = logfiletextbox.Text + "\n\n\n\n\n" + o + " copied to " + folderlabel2.Text;
Where folderlabel 2 is obviously a textbox. The first thing I've put in is the same textbox, so that no text is erased. The excessive new lines have proven my problem, because there are no new lines in the textbox (yes, set to multiline). The "o" is of type FileInfo in a FileInfo array.
Why won't these newlines show up in the text box?
Use "\r\n" instead of "\n". Windows text boxes need CRLF as line terminators, not just LF.
Potentially you could use Environment.NewLine instead - but I don't know what Mono TextBoxes do in terms of working with "\n" (which is what Environment.NewLine would be on a Linux box). If it starts putting extra stuff at the end if you use "\r\n" then that will break plenty of existing apps - but if it requires "\r\n" that would break apps which use Environment.NewLine.
Environment.NewLine is meant to be the default new line for the whole platform you're running on - but what if you're using a widget toolkit which does one thing, but text files typically do something else? Frankly it's a bit of a mess. It would be nice if there were a separate TextBox.NewLine property which different implementations could handle appropriately.
I believe TextBoxes want an Environment.NewLine (which should be "\r\n")
Note that it must be the carriage return (\r) followed by the new line (\n). If you reverse the order, it won't work.
A TextBox control expects a Carriage Return before your Line Feeds (0x0D 0x0A). Use "\r\n" or System.Environment.Newline.
in stead of using \n we can use
Environment.NewLine
i hope it will help
This is how i created append and new line for display
txtitems.Text = txtitems.Text + Environment.NewLine + dr[0].ToString() +" "+dr[1].ToString();
Anyone that is using VB.net, be on the lookout for vbCr
Here is an example:
return "My name is" & vbCr & "John" & vbCr & "Doe"
What I have is a C# windows app that reads a bunch of SQL tables and creates a bunch of queries based on the results. What I'm having a small issue with is the final "," on my query
This is what I have
ColumnX,
from
I need to read the entire file, write out exactly what is in the file and just replace the last , before the from with nothing.
I tried .replace(#",\n\nfrom),(#"\n\nfrom) but it's not finding it. Any help is appreciated.
Example:
ColumnX,
from
Result:
ColumnX
from
The line break is most likely the two character combination CR + LF:
.replace(",\r\n\r\nfrom","\r\n\r\nfrom")
If you want the line break for the current system, you can use the Environment.NewLine constant:
.replace(","+Environment.NewLine+Environment.NewLine+"from",Environment.NewLine+Environment.NewLine+"from")
Note that the # in front of a string means that it doesn't use backslash escape sequences, but on the other hand it can contain line breaks, so you could write it in this somewhat confusing way:
str = str.replace(#",
from", #"
from");
There are two solutions that you can try:
Remove the # symbol, as that means it's going to look for the literal characters of \n rather than a newline.
Try .replace("," + Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine + from, Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine + "from)
Instead of replacing or removing the comma when you read the file, it would probably be preferable to remove it before the file is written. That way you only have to bother with the logic once. As you are building your column list, just remove the last comma after the list is created. Hopefully you are in a position where you have control over that process.
If you can assume you always want to remove the last occurrence of the comma you can use the string function LastIndexOf to find the index for the last comma and use Remove from there.
myString = myString.Remove(myString.LastIndexOf(","), 1);
What about using Regex? Does that handle different forms of linefeed better?
var result = Regex.Replace(input, #",(\n*)from", "$1from");
I have written code in C# which is exceeding page width, so I want it to be broken into next line according to my formatting. I tried to search a lot to get that character for line break but was not able to find out.
In VB.NET I use '_' for line break, same way what is used in C#?
I am trying to break a string.
In C# there's no 'new line' character like there is in VB.NET. The end of a logical 'line' of code is denoted by a ';'. If you wish to break the line of code over multiple lines, just hit the carriage return (or if you want to programmatically add it (for programmatically generated code) insert 'Environment.NewLine' or '\r\n'.
Edit: In response to your comment: If you wish to break a string over multiple lines (i.e. programmatically), you should insert the Environment.NewLine character. This will take the environment into account in order to create the line ending. For instance, many environments, including Unix/Linux only use a NewLine character (\n), but Windows uses both carriage return and line feed (\r\n). So to break a string you would use:
string output = "Hello this is my string\r\nthat I want broken over multiple lines."
Of course, this would only be good for Windows, so before I get flamed for incorrect practice you should actually do this:
string output = string.Format("Hello this is my string{0}that I want broken over multiple lines.", Environment.NewLine);
Or if you want to break over multiple lines in your IDE, you would do:
string output = "My string"
+ "is split over"
+ "multiple lines";
Option A: concatenate several string literal into one:
string myText = "Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity" +
" - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.";
Option B: use a single multiline string literal:
string myText = #"Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity
- distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.";
With option B, the newline character(s) will be part of the string saved into variable myText. This might, or might not, be what you want.
result = "Minimum MarketData"+ Environment.NewLine
+ "Refresh interval is 1";
Use # symbol before starting the string.
like
string s = #"this is a really
long string
and this is
the rest of it";
If I am understanding this correctly, you should be able to break the string into substrings to accomplish this.
i.e.:
string s = "this is a really long string" +
"and this is the rest of it";
C# doesn't have an explicit line break character. You statements end with a semicolon so you can span your statements over many lines. These are both the same:
public string GenerateString()
{
return "abc" + "def";
}
public string GenerateString()
{
return
"abc" +
"def";
}
All you need to do is add \n or to write on files go \r\n.
Examples:
say you wanted to write duck(line break) cow this is how you would do it
Console.WriteLine("duck\n cow");
Edit: I think I didn't understand the question. You can use
#"duck
cow".Replace("\r\n", "")
as a linebreak in code, that produces \r\n which is used Windows.
C# code can be split between lines on pretty much any syntatic construct without a need for a '_' style construct.
For example
foo.
Bar(
42
, "again");
dt = abj.getDataTable(
"select bookrecord.userid,usermaster.userName, "
+" book.bookname,bookrecord.fromdate, "
+" bookrecord.todate,bookrecord.bookstatus "
+" from book,bookrecord,usermaster "
+" where bookrecord.bookid='"+ bookId +"' "
+" and usermaster.userId=bookrecord.userid "
+" and book.bookid='"+ bookId +"'");
guys.. use resources for long strings in code behind!!
also.. you don't need an _ for codeline breaks in C#. In VB the codelines end with a newline character (or a ':'), using the the _ would tell the parser it has not reached the end of the line yet. The codeline in C# ends with a ';' so you can use newlines to styleformat your code.
Strings are immutable, so using
public string GenerateString()
{
return
"abc" +
"def";
}
will slow you performance - each of those values is a string literal which must be concatenated at runtime - bad news if you reuse the method/property/whatever alot...
Store your string literals in resources is a good idea...
public string GenerateString()
{
return Resources.MyString;
}
That way it is localisable and the code is tidy (although performance is pretty terrible).