Carriage Return Line Feed

[adiMasher]

Alright I'm almost certain there's a better way to do this. But here's what I have so far.

I'm using FileOutputStream to make a log file but when I pass my String to it with a "\n" the new line doesn't appear in the text file.
I was thinking I might need the carriage return character as well. What is the escape character for this?

take a look.

...
AddtoLog("Copying "+ fso.toString() + " to " + fsoNew.toString() + "\n");
...
   public static void AddtoLog(String logMessage){
	FileOutputStream fos;
	byte[] buff = new byte[1048576];
	int size;

	try{
		fos = new FileOutputStream(logFile, true);
		buff = logMessage.getBytes();
		size = buff.length;
		fos.write(buff,0,size);
	}
	catch(FileNotFoundException fnf){
		System.out.println("File not found" + fnf);
		return;
	}
	catch(SecurityException se){
		System.out.println("Security Exception" +se);
		return;
	}
	catch(IOException e){
		System.out.println("IOException " + e);
	}

    }

thanks,
Martin I don't suffer from insanity.
I enjoy every minute of it.

 

[adiMasher]

Okay, I'm not quite sure why the current situation doesn't work when everything seems to be in place.

So I just went ahead and used FileWriter

FileWriter fw;

fw = new FileWriter(logFile);
fw.write(logMessage + "\n");

and this does the trick.

Martin I don't suffer from insanity.
I enjoy every minute of it.

 

[idarke]

Just for the record, "\n\r" will produce CRLF.