Cross Platform Linefeed Characters

Date:    Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:20:51 +0100
From:    Detlef Beyer <d.beyer@hermes.de>
Subject: Re: Text files from different platforms

> The problem is that I don't know what char terminates each line on the
>text file. This depends on the platform on which the file was originally
>composed I guess.
> I understand that there are three kinds of text files, MAC, WINTEL and
>UNIX. How can I test for that?

Mac = ASCII 13
UNIX = ASCII 10
Win = ASCII 13+10
13 = CR
10 = LF

and then do something like:


on TestPlattform
  set testText = the text of field 3
  if testText contains numToChar(10) then
    if testText contains numToChar(13) then
      put  "DOS"
    else
      put "Unix"
    end if
  else
    put "Mac"
  end if
end TestPlattform