Please help me out here

[vissu007]

consider the following program segment..

FileWriter f=new FileWriter(args[0]);
............
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f.write('\n');

The above given segment is from one of my programs.whenever I use f.write('\n') to go to a new line in the output file,the function is printing a small square box in the file.But,I want it to move the control to a new line so that whatever character it writes in the file thereafter writes it in a new line.This is happening for all the escape sequences used.Can anybody give me a solution for this problem?Reply soon.Thanq....

[JavaBean]

"\n" is not a platform independent way of writing a new line to a file. Try using:

Code:

f.write(System.getProperty("line.separator"));

Here are some relevant javadocs:

BufferedWriter.html#newLine()
System.html#getProperties()

[vissu007]

Thanks for the reply.What about using other escape sequences like '\b'(Whitespace)?

[JavaBean]

The problem is not escape sequences! They are same on all platforms. The problem is the new line for files! As far as i remember it was \r\n (Linux i guess) in one platform and \n (Windows i guess) in the other one.