RE: New line on FileStream

Thanks Bill

That explains it, I guess it also explains why the Java Stream objects don't
have a writeline method?

I think I'll go for your suggestion and use a const declared as = "\r\n".

Thanks very much for your help.

Neill

-----Original Message-----
From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Blalock, Bill
Sent: 20 September 2008 19:58
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: RE: New line on FileStream


Hi Neil:

A Java class which writes "lines" will use the line separator of the
JVM. See javadocs for System.getProperty(), property "line.separator"

For the System I (and Unix / linux) that is a single linefeed (or new
line) character (LF - line feed). That also happens to be the value of
the escape sequence \n.

This file is being written to a PC file in QNTC and opened with a PC
application like Notepad.

The new line delimiter of the PC file system is two characters, carriage
return (CR) and linefeed (LF).

Some PC applications, like WordPad, CodeEdit and the editors in WDSCi
will treat a single linefeed (\n) properly. My experience has been that
most do.

Other PC applications will display it as "unknown character", Notepad
displays it as a rectangle.

If you need a true PC line delimiter define a constant like CRLF as
"\r\n" and use it in place of \n.

Bill Blalock

-----Original Message-----
From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neill Harper
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 1:28 PM
To: java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: New line on FileStream

Hi



Does anybody know of any problems with the new line functionality when
writing a text file with a buffered writer.



Using the code below when I open the file with notepad it doesn't have
the
new line in it. i.e. the text is all one line like this:



file was created by the AS400 using Javaif you can read this then it
worked



try
{
DQData = dqServer.read(30);

if(DQData != null)
{
AS400Text Action = new
AS400Text(10,as400);
String actionS = (String)
Action.toObject(DQData.getData(), 0, 10);

if(actionS.trim().equals("CRTF"))
{
File file = new
File("/QNTC/Server/Share/Folder/Folder2" +

"/Folder3/USER/newFile.txt");
FileWriter fw = new
FileWriter(file);
BufferedWriter bw = new
BufferedWriter(fw);

bw.write("This file was created
by
the AS400 using Java");
//bw.write("\n"); //This
doesn't
work either

bw.newline();
bw.write("if you can read this then it worked");
bw.close();
fw.close();

}
}
}



thanks Neill