Question

I assume there must be a system and language independent way to just stick the ‘current’ EOL character into a text file, but my MSDN-fu seems to be weak today. Bonus points if there is a way to do this in a web application that will put the correct EOL character for the current client’s machine’s OS, not the web server’s.

Answer 1

For the bonus point:

• Check the user-agent of the client machine, for substrings such as Windows, or Linux
• The System.Environment.NewLine for Windows is 0x13, 0x10; in unix, it’s generally 0x10 only;
• Choose the appropriate newline string, append it to the line, and off you go