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Wesley Skeen
Wesley Skeen

Reputation: 8285

Maintaining line breaks when writing and retrieving a text file

I have an application where the user can write articles and they will be displayed on a web page. Instead of storing all the text in the database I want to write it to a text file and store it that way. The problem is, I can't seem to get the file to hold formatting ie line breaks. If the user types

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and then saves, it is saved as

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Is there any way to maintain formatting?

Current code is 

var fileContents = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath(@"~/Articles/" + articlePost.atclFile + ".txt"));
articleTextbox.Text = fileContents.Replace(System.Environment.NewLine, "<br/>");

Upvotes: 0

Views: 958

Answers (3)

Mike Richter
Mike Richter

Reputation: 329

What about 

articleTextbox.Text = fileContents.Replace("\r\n", "<br/>");

or 

articleTextbox.Text = fileContents.Replace("\n", "<br/>");

Upvotes: 2

Zoran
Zoran

Reputation: 459

how about the good old

     <pre> ... </pre>

Upvotes: 1

System Down
System Down

Reputation: 6260

You need to replace text line breaks with HTML line breaks:

var newText = oldText.Replace(System.Environment.NewLine, "<br/>");

Upvotes: 4

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