Question

I have a very simple console application that creates a text file. Below is a recap of the code:

StreamWriter writer = File.CreateText("c:\\temp.txt");
foreach (blah...)
{
  writer.Write(body.ToString() + "\n");
  writer.Flush();
}
writer.Close();

The client is claiming there are carriage returns at the end of each line. Where are these carriage returns coming from?

Update: After opening in VS binary editor and Notepad++, there were no occurrences of 0d 0a. I’m going to go back to the client.

Answer 1

Open the file in the Visual Studio binary editor (File.Open.File, click down-arrow on Open button, choose Open With… and pick Binary Editor), and look for 0D bytes. If none are present, then either:

• your client can’t tell the the difference between a line feed and a carriage return,

• your transmission method is modifying the file en-route. Is there any FTP binary/ascii mismatch going on?

If there are 0D bytes, then they are present in your body variable.