CFFile retrieves the file in one line!

[Bikzit]

Hi There ..
I was tryin' to read a text file usin' the tag CFFile as the followin':
<CFFile Action=&quot;read&quot; File=&quot;c:\T.txt&quot; Variable=&quot;var_t&quot;>

But when i tried to output the variable as the followin': <CFOutput>#var_t#</CFOutput> I got the contents of the file on one line, while the real contents of the file are:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4

I got them like this:
Line1Line2Line3Line4

How can i retrieve the contents as they are?
Can Ya Help Plz! <CFBikzit Text=&quot;Hi There&quot;>

 

[GunJack]

I assume you're reading in a text file and trying to display it in a browser. With a text file, special characters called Carriage-Return & Line-Feed (ascii 13 & 10) tell the text editor where to separate the lines. In a web browser, the character sequences (html tags) &quot;<br>&quot; and &quot;<p>&quot; tell it where to separate lines.

What is happenning is that the browser is seeing &quot;line1#asci13##ascii10#line2...&quot; so it displays it as one line because there are no &quot;<br>&quot; or &quot;<p>&quot; tags. What you want to do is convert the ascii 10 characters to &quot;<br>&quot; tags and you should get the proper formatting. Since Unix files just use the Line-Feed (ascii 10) to designate line breaks, you'll want to search and replace just the ascii 10 characters since the 13,10 sequence will only be found in a windows text file.

Just use this:
<cfoutput>#replace(var_t,&quot;#chr(10)#&quot;,&quot;<br>&quot;,&quot;all&quot#</cfoutput>

Let me know if you still have trouble,
GJ

 

[tlhawkins]

Hey Bikzit

You can save a little work by using ParagraphFormat(Text)
it does exactly what GunJack described in the above post.

 

[GunJack]

Actually it doesn't. Paragraphformat() turns single CR,LF's into spaces instead of line breaks. If you want the format he outlined above where single line breaks are turned into <br> tags, you'll need to use the replace function or something similar.

GJ

 

[tlhawkins]

My Bad GunJack paragraphformat has always worked for me

 

[tlhawkins]

HEY Guys I thought I would stick my foot in my mouth one more time.

I messed around with this for a while (basically because I hate being wrong) and GunJack's Replace did work better then my ParagraphFormat. However neither one preserved all of the text formatting. So I tried HTMLcodeFormat and although it just places <pre> </pre> tags around the text it actually preserved all of the formating and made for the most accurate browser view of the text.

So I hope we've answered Bikzit's question thoroughly.

 

[GunJack]

Hehe, I know the feeling, I hate being wrong too If you really wanted to preserve all the formatting, I would nest that replace() statement in another replace() that changed all double spaces into a space +  . If you then nested that output inside one that changed all tab characters into &quot;      ...&quot;, I think you would have a pretty accurate translation without using the &quot;<pre>&quot; tags.

GJ

 

[GunJack]

Ooops, some of my post didn't come through right. It should have been this

... another replace() that changed all double spaces into a space + &nbsp; . If you then nested that output inside one that changed all tab characters into &quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ...&quot;, I think you would have a pretty accurate translation without using the &quot;<pre>&quot; tags.