[GAP Forum] Changing line when printing to a text file

[Hebert Pérez-Rosés]

Now it works !! Thank you, Dimitri.




2014-01-31 Dmitrii Pasechnik <dmitrii.pasechnik at cs.ox.ac.uk>:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:05:57PM +0100, Hebert Pérez-Rosés wrote:
> > Thanks a lot William, but it still doesn't work :-). By the way,
> according
> > to Section 10.4-8, shouldn't it be
> >
> > SetPrintFormattingStatus(outfile, true); ?
> >
> > In any case, I've tried both options (true and false), and it still does
> > not change lines. Maybe it's a Windows thing (I'm running GAP on
> Windows),
> > or maybe it's an old bug that has already been corrected (I'm using GAP
> > version 4.4.12). Any hint will be most welcome.
>
> On Windows "\n" need not be the right character sequence for the end of
> line.
> You might want to try "\r\n" instead.
>
> HTH,
> Dmitrii
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Hebert.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2014-01-31 William DeMeo <williamdemeo at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Dear Herbert,
> > >
> > > You might try
> > >
> > >     outfile:= OutputTextFile(filename, false) ;
> > >     SetPrintFormattingStatus(outfile, false);
> > >
> > > Then a line like yours,
> > >
> > >     Print(outfile, " ", out[i][2], "\n");
> > >
> > > might do what you expect. It seems to work for me.
> > >
> > > You could also read Section 10.4-8 of the manual.  I believe the
> > > following link will take you directly there::
> > >
> > >
> http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/ref/chap10.html#X8663FCD57E8BC390
> > >
> > > Hope that helps.  Good luck!
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > > William
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > On Friday, January 31, 2014, Hebert Pérez-Rosés <
> hebert.perez at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I am printing a function's output simultaneously to the standard
> output
> > > > (the screen) and to a text file. On the screen the output appears
> > > > correctly, but in the text file everything appears as a single line,
> i.e.
> > > > there is no change of line. Here's my code:
> > > >
> > > >   LogOutputTo("C:/Tempo/GAP/outgraph.txt");
> > > >   Print(n, " ", m, "\n");
> > > >   for i in [1..m] do
> > > >       Print(out[i][1], " ", out[i][2], "\n");
> > > >   od;
> > > >   LogOutputTo();
> > > >
> > > > What happens to the "\n" character?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you very much in advance,
> > > > Hebert.
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