Re: canonical text files
Roedy Green wrote:
Should it have a final CrLf or not?
John B. Matthews wrote:
"Some programs have problems processing the last line of a file if it is
not newline terminated. Conversely, programs that expect newline to be
used as a separator will interpret a final newline as starting a new
(empty) line."
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline>
In other words, the answer depends on the intended use for the text file.
It's not a Java issue.
Roedy Green wrote:
Java seems conflicted on the issue.
Originally readLn did not work unless there was a final "separator".
What is this 'readLn' of which you speak?
'BufferedReader#readLine()' Javadocs imply that the newline is a line
terminator, but it's unclear whether it'll return a last line that lacks the
terminator. Other 'Reader's (that aren't subtypes of 'BufferedReader') don't
have a similar method, so I don't know how you call Java "conflicted" over
this. In order for there to be a conflict, there needs to be more than one
way it works and they have to somehow interfere with each other. That's not
happening here, and that's leaving aside that how a particular class chooses
to handle such input imposes no requirement that any other class do it the
same way.
--
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