Re: Preserving newlines

[Chris Vetter]

On 2006-06-08 17:57:22 +0200 Nate Smith <nathan.smith@nist.gov> wrote:
> So when I run it, and enter in:
> Hi\n

That is four (4) characters you entered

> It prints out:
> output: |Hi\n|

So four (4) characters are printed,

> but I want it to print out:
> output: |Hi
> |

and not three (3) as you would want it to.

> I could always manually parse the output, and if a "\n" is found, then
> really print a newline, but that seems a bit too muddled. Any ideas?

How is your program, or rather any of the functions/methods supposed 
to know that you want your two character entry '\n' to be a one 
character entry '(new line)' ?

Take a look at eg NSString-rangeOfString: you can use to 'parse' your 
input string and 'scan' for the two characters '\n'

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Chris