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emulate ENTER in .txt

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Just add newlines in the file?

12345
548793
etc...

applechewer 2010-04-12 16:45:11

I think he has a file where "ENTER" (case insensitive) should be replaced with a newline. The problem is what tool / language he hopes to use to substitute string literals for newlines.

Tim Post 2010-04-12 16:47:16

im importing a series of numbers which were captured by a scanner. the numbers are separated by a comma. I would like to insert a enter command in between the numbers so i can copy and paste from a notepad.txt into a spreadsheet in a column format

gary 2010-04-12 19:16:38

Answer 2

+1 A:

There is a difference between an enter and a return (-- old skool typewriter stuff - check Wikipedia on that).

One is a carriage return and one is a line feed; the ASCII codes for those are 10 and 13, I'd say test and find out which one (if not both) you'll need.

Normally (in like C++,C#,etc) you'd post \r\n --> 10 13

riffnl 2010-04-12 16:48:25

im importing a series of numbers which were captured by a scanner. the numbers are separated by a comma. I would like to insert a enter command in between the numbers so i can copy and paste from a notepad.txt into a spreadsheet in a column format.

gary 2010-04-12 19:15:53

Now that's more information then you've left in the original post; What programming language are you using to achieve this?

riffnl 2010-04-13 08:34:09

Answer 3

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The script that is reading in your txt file should already recognize whichever EOL character the text editor used. Many scripting languages automatically understand the various EOLs when reading from a filehandle. If yours doesn't, you may have to compose a regex that looks for the most common ones.

dnagirl 2010-04-12 16:52:05

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