Newline consistency

[John E]

Does anyone know of a handy utility that can open a text file (or list of text files) and convert all the newlines to have a consistent style?

e.g. if the preferred newline character is 0x0A, it would remove 0x0D from all occurrences of 0x0D/0x0A and it would then convert any remaining occurrences of 0x0D to 0x0A.

(hope that makes sense :) )

[ovidiucucu]

AFAIK, the well known Ultraedit does that.
You can also try others from tens of text editors avalable on the net.
And can also make your own "newline converter" with not a ton of sweat... ;)

[S_M_A]

Visual Studio also does that. When loading a file with inconsistent newlines you're asked what type you prefer to convert to (or you can let it be as it is)

[John E]

Thanks. I did try a few editors but none of mine seemed to do it (surprisingly, even 'Save As' didn't change any pre-existing newlines). Anyway, I ended up writing a small utility myself. It only took half an hour. :thumb:

[John E]

Here it is, in case it's of use to anyone else....