kruptof

I know this is not c++ specific but it is the implementation langauge i am using, if it is in the wrong category please feel free move it.

when reading through a file to determine the amount of lines in that file, if i check for the end of line character which is \n i only get a count of how many times the user purposely terminated a line, some times a line might not be terminated by hitting the retun key or whatever causes the \n, but it might be terminated by any other characters like when u have sentences that go over several lines, i cannot seem to find how to do this, is their any special characters that i should be looking out for, that will allow me to detect this sort of behaviour.

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DaWei

A line is a line in the file, and is indicated by the presence of a newline (LF, \n), carriage return (CR, \r), or both, depending upon the system. That's for the huge majority of cases you will run up against. You are talking about word-wrap. That's a presentation thing, not a file thing. If you have a file prepared in one of the ways listed above, and it's interpreted by a system that uses one of the other ways, you may get long lines that don't wrap, or blank lines due to the double (\r\n). Again, it's a presentation or interpretation thing. You may get similar effects if the file were written (in Windows) in text mode and read in binary mode.

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