How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file?
Rob Gaddi
rgaddi at technologyhighland.invalid
Wed Nov 18 13:05:33 EST 2015
On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:40:58 -0800, ryguy7272 wrote:
>
> It doesn't seem like the '\n' is doing anything useful. All the text is
> jumbled together. When I open the file in Excel, or Notepad++, it is
> easy to read. However, when I open it in as a regular text file,
> everything is jumbled together. Is there an easy way to fix this?
You're suffering cause-effect inversion. Windows default Notepad is a
fundamentally crippled text editor that only knows how to handle Windows/
DOS style text files, where the line endings is '\n\r'. Notepad++, along
with many other excellent editors available for Windows, is smart enough
to figure out from the file whether it's Windows style or UNIX style,
where line endings are just a bare '\n'.
So the problem wasn't with what you were writing, it's with how you
define "open it as a regular text file". On my Windows machine I long
ago switched the default editor to Notepad++ for everything and was far
happier for it.
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