Question

I need to make a program in C++ that must read and write text files line by line with an specific format, but the problem is that in my PC I work in Windows, and in College they have Linux and I am having problems because of line endings are different in these OS.

I am new to C++ and don’t know could I make my program able read the files no matter if they were written in Linux or Windows. Can anybody give me some hints? thanks!

The input is like this:

James White 34 45.5 10 black
Miguel Chavez 29 48.7 9 red
David McGuire 31 45.8 10 blue

Each line being a record of a struct of 6 variables.

Answer 1

If you can already read the files, just check for all of the newline characters like "\n" and "\r". I’m pretty sure that linux uses "\r\n" as the newline character.

You can read this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline

and here is a list of all the ascii codes including the newline characters:

http://www.asciitable.com/

Edit: Linux uses "\n", Windows uses "\r\n", Mac uses "\r". Thanks to Seth Carnegie