Re: readfile() and writefile() in practice

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On October 6, 2014 11:44:54 PM GMT+03:00, Benjamin Klein <ben@silver-chalice.com> wrote:
>As far as I can tell, readfile() and writefile() have something against
>new lines. If I read a file and then immediately write that (a List) to
>another file, I get all of the first file's contents in a single line
>of the new file.
>
>Is this just something I'm doing wrong? As it is, I apparently can't
>preserve new lines in a file when using these functions.

How can we tell you whether you are doing something wrong if you have not said what are you doing? readfile() is called with one or two arguments, writefile() is called with two or three and you must provide at least all arguments of the latter.

Also note that there were some fixes made to these functions quite a lot time ago, but some distributions still fetch an old version. I do not know any way to achieve the result you claim to be observing with or without those fixes though. How did you test for file being on a single line and what did you see *exactly*? It may have been &fileformat mess for whatever reason.

I can say though that with 'b' second or third argument they work perfectly for copying file contents. Almost never use them without this argument.

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>Ben
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