Page 1 of 1
write-line outputs CRCRLF on my XP box
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:03 am
by John_Small
Hi,
I'm using version 9.1.1 on windows XP.
(write-line "")
and
(println "")
both output a three character sequence
CRCRLF
instead of just
CRLF
Is there something I'm doing wrong?
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:26 am
by Lutz
The extra CR is added by Windows in piping situations, newLISP itself only outputs CR-LF (on UNIX only LF). Try this to verify:
Code: Select all
> (device (open "test.txt" "w"))
3
> (println "hello")
"hello"
> (close (device))
true
> (set 's (read-file "test.txt"))
"hello\r\n"
>
You also can verify this using write-line to a file or to a string buffer and will get the same result.
I found out about this years ago when doing CGI work on Windows. If you pipe your STDOUT to a file, Windows will add that extra CR before all LF. The only way around it is stripping it off with a (replace {\r\r\n} buffer {\r\n}).
Lutz
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:47 am
by rickyboy
Hey John_Small,
Are you the same John Small who used to be user jsmall here and who wrote the newLISP tutorial? If so, how come the new username (John_Small)?
Curious,
--Rick