OK the problem is with screwy file delimiters. If I open the same file in notepad, then the file appears all in one line with a "rectangle" like character in between my lines. (funny thing is that if I copy paste that "rectange like" character into this window it results into a new line!!)

I suppose this is a character which textpad and eclipse java editor find OK but notepad and perl do not recognize this as a newline character.

But now how do I solve this problem ? I am kind of stuck...I have two kinds of newlines in my source code and I have to write a utiltity which has to reads all the lines of the source code and process it. Can I find this character and replace it with the one which is universally regarded as a newline?

Please help I am confused!

regards,
Abhishek.

In reply to Re: Re: Strange File read problem by abhishes
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