[antlr-interest] Newlines (yet again)
Paul J. Lucas
pauljlucas at mac.com
Tue Jan 18 10:45:52 PST 2005
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, David Wigg wrote:
> Admittedly I have not seen any previous correspondence on this
> subject but I don't see how you can ignore the possibility of a
> '\r' appearing here.
>
> In any case I don't think it will work on a Mac file, or has
> this been changed now?
MacOS is now Unix. Only really old MacOS 9 files use '\r'.
> // handle newlines
> | ( "\r\n" // MS
> | '\r' // Mac
> | '\n' // Unix
> ) {newline();}
You definitely do not need "\r\n" for Windows. Since the '\n'
is always present and required for a newline, why do you care
whether a '\r' came before it? Answer: you don't care what
came before it.
- Paul
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