overwriting a text file with text

Dagger13 · Post by **Dagger13** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:33 am

well when ever i open a file and it contains a new line or when u press the
enter key that thing
i open files with the openfiledialog

when ever i overwrite a file those new line things come up as a box can somebody help
and im using vb 2005

heres a pic

OwnZ joO · Post by **OwnZ joO** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:44 am

You need to explain better what you are trying to do, and what you did to accomplish it. How did you open the file(StreamWriter??) and what did you do?

Dagger13 · Post by **Dagger13** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:48 am

maybe now u will understand

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:16 pm

looks like a problem with the line terminator,

can you paste some of your saving code?

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:25 pm

For saving try this...simple:

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FileOpen(1,*FILEPATHTOSAVETO*, OpenMode.Output)
PrintLine(1, *textfieldcontainingthetext*)
FileClose(1)

Dagger13 · Post by **Dagger13** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:08 pm

im using visual basic

this is what im using now

My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText(filename, richtextbox1.Text, False)

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:15 pm

You can try this...

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richtextbox1.SaveFile(filename, RichTextBoxStreamType.PlainText)

Prey · Post by **Prey** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:56 pm

It's just the way new lines are being saved by the two different methods.

The FileSystem method uses only the Line Feed (LF) control character, 0x0A, to represent a new line.. whereas notepad expects a Carriage Return (CR) control character, 0x0D, followed by a LF control character to represent a new line..

Without the CR, the LF goes unrecognised by Notepad, thus the unrecognised character..

The method Ant posted will use the CR+LF for new lines, so it'll "work" in Notepad.. but in future you're better off using the StreamWriter class for plain text operations.. in this case:

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        Dim sw As New StreamWriter(s.FileName)
        For i As Integer = 0 To RichTextBox1.Lines.Length - 1
            sw.WriteLine(RichTextBox1.Lines(i))
        Next
        sw.Close()

Although the rtb's built-in save method is obviously much more preferable here.

Dagger13 · Post by **Dagger13** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:01 pm

lol thnx anthony i didnt even think of that

and thanks everybody else who commented

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:34 pm

Yeah no problem.

Next time if I were you, I would go with what prey suggested. That is the way I do it myself but since I figured you were probably new to VB I would help you in the simplest way possible

Dagger13 · Post by **Dagger13** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:16 pm

im not new ive been on it for a few years i just never thought of doing that

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:25 pm

Dagger13 wrote:im using visual basic

My code is also VB even though it looks kinda different