IE displaying text file

[techseek]

Hello
Just noticed that a plain text file which we generate for reporting Form13-F when open in notepad displays like "spaced" but uneven/disorganized data. Yet, when I open it in IE, it displays it in nice organized columns.
Just wondering what IE is doing to recognize the order in that text file.

Thanks all

 

[feherke]

Hi

Impossible to say without seeing the file and knowing how are you accessing it.

In meantime a guess : it has Unix or Mac line endings, which are unknown for NotePad but Explorer is able to detect them.


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[techseek]

Thanks for responding.
I'm just opening it thru file/open in IE9. the file itself is just on my desktop. It may be what you say. Now if I knew how to reveal those....

 

[feherke]

Hi

I'm just opening it thru file/open in IE9. the file itself is just on my desktop.

Then the issue is probably with the file itself.

Now if I knew how to reveal those...

Use a text editor able to detect and change the line endings. Personally I preferred ConTEXT.

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[darryncooke]

From what you are saying it sounds like in your text file content looks like

hello     a          world     today is
great

but in a browser is appears

hello a world today is great

if that is the case it is because browsers do not render extra spaces.

Darryn Cooke

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[feherke]

Hi

browsers do not render extra spaces.

True. For HTML files. However the OP wrote "plain text file".

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[darryncooke]

i would love to see screenshots to get a better idea of what the question is then.

Darryn Cooke

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[techseek]

hello
the text file in when viewed in notepad++ in fact has embedded CR's
the line data itself fills all 130 or so characters per line. The CR's appear in different places along a line. The browser however does the "wrap around" at each CR such that the data id displayed in oorganized columns.

It is no longer an issue/question.
Thank you