We all read something like this:
use the System.getProperty(String) method to refer to items which depend on the system, such as line terminators and path separators.
The quote is copied from this web site.
I hard-coded an \n
, and the code below works on my Windows machine as expected.
package sample;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("hello\nworld");
};
}
The output is:
hello
world
I thought the Java compiler replaced \n
with \r\n
silently. So I downloaded JD GUI, opened the JAR file, and saw Hello\nworld
. Can anybody give me an example where \n
doesn't work and System.getProperty("line.separator")
does?
From the comment: It looks like Command Prompt substitutes the correct line endings, and Notepad doesn't.