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1. Problem when recording with append mode

• Posted by sergelli Jan 05, 2013
• 1027 views

For some reason that does not matter here, some programs write files without '\n' in your last line. Thus, the file looks like this:

Line 1\n 
Line 2\n 
Line 3 

When I open the file with the statement: open ("filename", "a") and record more lines, the result is:

Line 1\n 
Line 2\n 
Line 3Line 4\n 
Line 5\n 

Simply use a '\n' before starting the recordings is not solving also, because there are files that comes with '\n' at the end, and in this case the result would be this:

Line 1\n 
Line 2\n 
Lane 3\n 
\n 
Line 4\n 
Line 5\n 

How do I resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance

3. Re: Problem when recording with append mode

• Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 05, 2013
• 1013 views

Some example code on how to do this:

EDIT: update after testing

include std/io.e --4.0 and up 
--include file.e --3.11 or earlier 
 
-- returns 1 if a newline must be added, 0 otherwise 
function check_newline(sequence file) 
	integer h, c 
	atom p 
	h = open(file, "r") 
	if h = -1 then 
		return 0 
	end if 
	if not seek(h, -1) then 
		p = where(h) 
		if not seek(h, p - 1) then 
			c = getc(h) 
			if c != '\n' and c != -1 then 
				close(h) 
				return 1 
			end if 
		end if 
	end if 
	close(h) 
	return 0 
end function 
procedure append_newline(sequence file) 
	integer h 
	if check_newline(file) then 
		h = open(file, "a") 
		if h != -1 then 
			puts(h, "\n") 
			close(h) 
		end if 
	end if 
end procedure 

5. Re: Problem when recording with append mode

• Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 05, 2013
• 1003 views

open ("fileName", "r") 
LIN1 = gets (fn) 
if not find (10 LIN1) then 

You'll need to use getc(), instead of gets(), to do this check.