ComparisonFailure on equal(to the eye) strings

[staffan]

Hello!

I have problems with trying to verify a string read from a text file.

* I read in the entire text file and save it as a String (say myStringReadFromFile).
* I manually copy the text from the the text file, and as the text is not so long I paste it into my assertEquals method and adjust it slightly to something like this:

assertEquals("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n"
+ "<Event pointID=\"Alarms\" xmlns=\"ng:event\">\n"
+ "<Header>\n"
+ ...
, myStringReadFromFile);

Now the thing is I get a junit.framework.ComparisonFailure. Using Eclipse, I double click on the failure to open the "Result Comparison" window, but nothing differs the actual from the expected text!
I copy the two text fields manually into two different text files and run a winmerge on them. They are identical..

Any help on how to make things easier..? :)

Thanks!
Staffan

[azzaiel]

try usng string buffer

Stringbuffer sb = new Stringbugger

sb.append("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>");
sb.append("<Event pointID=\"Alarms\" xmlns=\"ng:event\">");
sb.append("<Header>");

assertEqualls(sb.tostring,myStringReadFromFile);

[staffan]

Thanks for your reply azzaiel!

After some more trying (including your proposal..) I found out that what I needed instead of \n after each line was \r\n. (CR LF)

Simple as that.. :)

/Staffan