mac and pc escape characters

[JJ]

Does anyone know if there is any difference in the excape characters on a
Mac (compared to a PC). I am parsing some text that is pasted into a
textbox, and splitting it based on the position of \t or \r escape
characters.

Works fine on a PC, but it may not be working as expected on a Mac. Whether
this is because of differences in the text file format I have yet to
ascertain.

Thanks in advance,
JJ

[Mark Rae]

"JJ" <ab*@xyz.comwrote in message
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Does anyone know if there is any difference in the excape characters on a
Mac (compared to a PC). I am parsing some text that is pasted into a
textbox, and splitting it based on the position of \t or \r escape
characters.

Works fine on a PC, but it may not be working as expected on a Mac.
Whether this is because of differences in the text file format I have yet
to ascertain.

It won't be the underlying operating system per se but rather the rendering
engine of the various browsers.

What Mac browser(s) are you using?

What code are you using?
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[JJ]

Hi Mark.

The browser is Firefox 2.0 for MacOSX. I am doing this to grab fields out of
a text file, either (a) when its pasted into a textbox, or (b) when they
upload the file :

string.Split('\r') - to get the lines, then
string.Split('\t') - to get the fields

To get the string in the first place:
(a) string = textbox.text, or if the file is uploaded and the filepath is
supplied:
(b) using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(filePath))
{
contentsOfFile = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();
}
Thanks,
JJ

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"JJ" <ab*@xyz.comwrote in message
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>Does anyone know if there is any difference in the excape characters on a
Mac (compared to a PC). I am parsing some text that is pasted into a
textbox, and splitting it based on the position of \t or \r escape
characters.

Works fine on a PC, but it may not be working as expected on a Mac.
Whether this is because of differences in the text file format I have yet
to ascertain.

It won't be the underlying operating system per se but rather the
rendering engine of the various browsers.

What Mac browser(s) are you using?

What code are you using?
--
http://www.markrae.net

[Mark Rae]

"JJ" <ab*@xyz.comwrote in message
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Hi Mark.

The browser is Firefox 2.0 for MacOSX. I am doing this to grab fields out
of a text file, either (a) when its pasted into a textbox, or (b) when
they upload the file :

string.Split('\r') - to get the lines, then
string.Split('\t') - to get the fields

To get the string in the first place:
(a) string = textbox.text, or if the file is uploaded and the filepath
is supplied:
(b) using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(filePath))
{
contentsOfFile = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();
}

Hmm - well there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that...

What is actually happening when you split the string...?
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