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hageApple
hageApple

Reputation: 11

notepad don't recognize new line character '\n' but works fine with other special character such as tab

I am trying to read input string from keyboard and write it into a text file called dFile.txt in my program using fputs(). Since fputs() don't add new line i have explicitly added new line in my code but when i check my output file it did not add any new line. I have added tab "\t" just to cross check if note pad dont recognize any special character but it is working fine with it. 

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>

int main()
{
    char arr[100];
    FILE *dest;
    dest=fopen("dFile.txt","w");
    puts("enter the string");
    while(strlen(gets(arr))>0)
    {
        fputs(arr,dest);
        fputs("\n",dest);
        fputs("\t",dest);                  
    }
    fclose(dest);
    return 0;
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2175

Answers (1)

ArjunShankar
ArjunShankar

Reputation: 23670

Notepad recognizes a \r\n (carriage return, followed immediately by newline) as a line break. Although, some other editors might recognize a \n by itself, as do all Unix utilities.

Also (and more importantly): it's not a good idea to use gets for unknown input sources.

Upvotes: 2

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