new line character is considered as two characters

[Someonekicked]

if you create a new file , open it and only hit enter then save. if you use
seekg(0,ios::end) and then tellg(), tellg() will return 2 (not 1); so new
line character is considered as two characters.

Is there a possible way so new line character can be considered (reading and
writing) as one character ? I need that in my program and the new line
character being two characters is messing up everything.

[osmium]

"Someonekicked" writes:

if you create a new file , open it and only hit enter then save. if you
use seekg(0,ios::end) and then tellg(), tellg() will return 2 (not 1); so
new line character is considered as two characters.

Is there a possible way so new line character can be considered (reading
and writing) as one character ? I need that in my program and the new line
character being two characters is messing up everything.

In a non-Unix system, new line is usually silently stored as two characters,
CR and LF. When these characters are retrieved, they are *silently*
converted to one character again. In a binary file none of these
conversions occur. The word "binary" was a poor choice to describe this
phenomena.

I can't tell exactly what you are trying to do but investigate this area.

If you think of "binary" as meaning "strict ASCII" it may help get your arms
around this thing.

[Karl Heinz Buchegger]

Someonekicked wrote:

if you create a new file , open it and only hit enter then save. if you use
seekg(0,ios::end) and then tellg(), tellg() will return 2 (not 1); so new
line character is considered as two characters.

Is there a possible way so new line character can be considered (reading and
writing) as one character ? I need that in my program and the new line
character being two characters is messing up everything.

You want to open the file in binary mode.

--
Karl Heinz Buchegger
kb******@gascad.at

[Someonekicked]

thx a lot, now it works fine, !
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if you create a new file , open it and only hit enter then save. if you
use seekg(0,ios::end) and then tellg(), tellg() will return 2 (not 1); so
new line character is considered as two characters.

Is there a possible way so new line character can be considered (reading
and writing) as one character ? I need that in my program and the new line
character being two characters is messing up everything.

[sirclif]

i think you want to recheck your assumption. if you create a file, hit
return TWICE, and run your program, you get 3, not 4.