Serious problem with JTextArea

[Aziz]

I have a text area...and I get the text from it and write it into a file, but when the text area has a newline in the text area, it writes a weird character (just a box) to the file, and no newline, and when the program reads it again, it doesn't place a newline, just ignores it...Anyhelp? I the program later...

[rizzix]

yea its the CRLFs & simply LFs issue

where CR represents carriage return and LF stands for line feed...

most unix-like os's and text editors use LFs only, to denote a new line.. ont he othere hand, windows stuff use CRLFs so you might see wierd characters like those boxes when copy-pasting stuff to and from various applications... as for java i'm not sure but i think its just LFs.. hence those crazy characters, instead of a new line.

[Aziz]

So, how do i get it to show up in my program? Sad

here's the program, btw, source code + classes, and a test file

EDIT: program moved here

EDIT: Okay, SOME progress. instead of using a printwriter's println() method, I used the JTextArea's write() method, and that wrote the actual newlines, but wait, I NOW HAVE AN IDEA....i'll be back.........

EDIT: mother...i just fixed it...so simple, why, why oh so simple??, here's original code used to return a list of chara objects (what stores all the information).

Java:

//Get the character records         private Chara[] getCharas()         {                 //List of filenames                 String[] list = getFileNames();                                 //Character list                 Chara[] charaList = new Chara[list.length];                                 //Try to read characters                 try                 {                         //Input stream                         BufferedReader input;                                                 //For every file...                         for (int i = 0; i < list.length; i++)                         {                                 //String that holds temporary values                                 String tempName;                                 int tempAge;                                 String tempBday;                                 String tempDesc = "";                                 String tempLine;                                                                 //Read from character file                                 input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("files\\" + list[i]));                                                                 //Read values                                 tempName = input.readLine();//read name                                 tempAge = Integer.parseInt(input.readLine());//read age                                 tempBday = input.readLine();//read bday                                                                 //Read description                                 tempLine = input.readLine();                                 while (tempLine != null)                                 {                                         tempDesc += tempLine;                                         tempLine = input.readLine();                                 }                                                                        //close file                                 input.close();                                                                 //Create new character//                                 charaList[i] = new Chara(tempName, tempAge, tempBday, tempDesc);                         }                 }//error dialog                 catch (IOException e)                 {                         JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(frame,                                 "Character list could not be loaded! :(\n" +                                 e.toString(),                 "List Error",                 JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);                 }                                 return charaList;         }

Now this part here:

Quote:

Java:

//Read description tempLine = input.readLine(); while (tempLine != null) {         tempDesc += tempLine;         tempLine = input.readLine(); }

Well, as I was writing the last edit to this post, I thought this idea:

[sytnax="java"]tempDesc += tempLine + "\n";[/syntax]

And it worked. It was reading the lines, but not the actual line feed. Thanks for attempting to help, man, but it was a simple thing i completely missed on my part

[rizzix]

right... a simple logic error. *sigh* hehe

[Aziz]

Those are always the worst ones huh? Happened quite a bit...but thanks. You're such an inspiration for me (that's like the 5th time you've come in handy! )