Re: line terminator
- Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Oct 11, 2004
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:41:10 -0400, George Walters <gwalters at sc.rr.com> wrote: >What is the normal line terminator for ascii files (dos/win) CR, LF or both? > >I had a bug and found that the last line in the file had no CR, LF but >all the other lines had a CR. I'm wondering if I ported the files >incorrectly from brand x operating system. (Theos OS). > The last line of a file does not always have a line terminator. Create a file in say notepad: Just enter "hello", - but do not key return - and there will be no CR's or LF's anywhere in that file. Regards, Pete