[Tutor] end of file symbol?

[Bill Mill]

Ummm, yeah, so I meant "\r\n" on windows, "\n" on *nix, and "\r" on
Mac pre-OS X. All of my "/" should be "\".

Thanks to the person who pointed that out.

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com


On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:29:19 -0500, Bill Mill <bill.mill at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> Windows-style text file lines end in "/r/n". Unix-style text file
> lines end in "/n". I believe that Mac-style text file lines end in
> 
> 
> "/r" . You can use the variable os.linesep to see what the current
> platform's line separator is.
> 
> There is no end of file character.
> 
> Peace
> Bill Mill
> 
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:14:31 -0800 (PST), Jeff Peery <jeffpeery at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > is there an end of file symbol? or an end of line symbol? usually I look for
> > '\n' when I am filtering though text to find the end of a line, but I am
> > wondering if there is a better end of line character. thanks.
> >
> > Jeff
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