Saving from richTextBox to File

JRB

Hi, I've got a bunch of text put onto a richTextBox with a StreamWriter.
Every now and then I insert a '\n' character for a new line. It displays
properly in the richTextBox with the \n character moving the text down to the
next line. The problem is that I have it set up so when the user clicks a
button I want to be able to save everything on the richTextBox to a file. It
works properly, but when I view the text file with Notepad, the \n characters
show up as squares instead of moving the text down to the next line. What is
the reason for this and can anyone help?

Nov 16 '05 #1

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Vijaye Raji

Try inserting a '\r' character before the '\n'

'\n' is unix style line ending.

Windows uses CR+LF (Carriage Return + Line Feed). That would be "\r\n"

-vJ

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Hi, I've got a bunch of text put onto a richTextBox with a StreamWriter.
Every now and then I insert a '\n' character for a new line. It displays
properly in the richTextBox with the \n character moving the text down to
the
next line. The problem is that I have it set up so when the user clicks a
button I want to be able to save everything on the richTextBox to a file.
It
works properly, but when I view the text file with Notepad, the \n
characters
show up as squares instead of moving the text down to the next line. What
is
the reason for this and can anyone help?

Nov 16 '05 #2

Jeff Louie

Consider System.Environm ent.NewLine

Regards,
Jeff

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Nov 16 '05 #3

JRB

Hi guys, thanks for the responses. I've tried both these solutions, but they
don't work. It might be a problem with Notepad or something because if I use
Wordpad to view the output it's formatted correctly. For some reason Notepad
interprets the newline as a character literal. The thing that's got me is
that if I make a call to StreamWriter.Ne wLine when writing to a file it does
give me a new line rather than the square character. From my understanding
StreamWriter.Ne wLine simply adds a "\r\n" to the end of what it's writing. So
how come when I add "\r\n" to the end of my strings manually it doesn't work?
What gives? Thanks in advance.

JRB

"Jeff Louie" wrote:

Consider System.Environm ent.NewLine

Regards,
Jeff

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Vijaye Raji

If you post a snippet of your code, then, we can try and figure out what's
going on.

-vJ

"JRB" <JR*@discussion s.microsoft.com > wrote in message
news:EC******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

Hi guys, thanks for the responses. I've tried both these solutions, but
they
don't work. It might be a problem with Notepad or something because if I
use
Wordpad to view the output it's formatted correctly. For some reason
Notepad
interprets the newline as a character literal. The thing that's got me is
that if I make a call to StreamWriter.Ne wLine when writing to a file it
does
give me a new line rather than the square character. From my understanding
StreamWriter.Ne wLine simply adds a "\r\n" to the end of what it's writing.
So
how come when I add "\r\n" to the end of my strings manually it doesn't
work?
What gives? Thanks in advance.

JRB

"Jeff Louie" wrote:
Consider System.Environm ent.NewLine

Regards,
Jeff

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