Writing a New Line in Java

[QuantumSlip]

OK, for some reason I'm trying to write a new line or carriage return to a text file to start a new line, and neither one of them work. I've tried using raf.writeByte and raf.writeChar with \n and \r (ASCII 13, 10 respectively, and raf is of type RandomAccessFile), and it just ends up making a space instead. I tried appending \n to my string, but again it just makes a space. Anyone have any ideas on how to get this to work?

code:
raf.writeChar('\n'); //just makes a space
raf.writeChar('\r'); //just makes a space too

and so on with writeByte and writeBytes; putting it into a String doesn't help either.

 

[tim_m]

assuming "raf" is a PrintWriter object (the only thing i know to write to text files), you can just do raf.println();

 

[Cverick]

Have you tried the raf.newLine() function?

 

[QuantumSlip]

well raf is of class RandomAcessFile, so none of those worked. i did get it to work with creating a string called lineSeparator which contained System.getProperty("line.separator"); a friend of mind found that in some post on the java site. Maybe sun should standardize this or something... oh well

 

[Nemezer]

If my memory serves well (It rarely does...)

Under the windows platform, a new line is "\r\n".

Probably the System..getProperty("line.separator") returns the above String.