Re: System.getProperty("line.separator") replacement/equivalent?

2010-08-06 Thread Thomas Wrobel
Nice idea, but unfortunately my server doesn't support servlet's, which limits me somewhat :) On 6 August 2010 22:06, Thomas Jackson wrote: > Have you considered writing a GWT Service that allows you to pass the > filename and then returns a List of Strings?  You can open a FileStream on > the se

Re: System.getProperty("line.separator") replacement/equivalent?

2010-08-06 Thread Thomas Jackson
Have you considered writing a GWT Service that allows you to pass the filename and then returns a List of Strings? You can open a FileStream on the server and then read line by line and let it handle it and not have to worry about newlines on the browser. Just a thought... On Fri, Aug 6, 2010

Re: System.getProperty("line.separator") replacement/equivalent?

2010-08-06 Thread darkflame
yes, theres a static text file on the server I wish to read in and detect the lines from. A simple requestBuilder is used to retrieve it. Are you saying I should use a php script to first parse over the text file, then echo out what it uses? Doesn't seem very quick or neat. I've got a text file..

Re: System.getProperty("line.separator") replacement/equivalent?

2010-08-06 Thread dolcra...@gmail.com
You do know that GWT runs in the browser right? I think you're trying to find out if a file is new lined with \r\n or \n, then i would detect it on the server and either translate it or make a way to return the information to the browser (RPC?). On Aug 6, 11:18 am, darkflame wrote: > I wish to f

System.getProperty("line.separator") replacement/equivalent?

2010-08-06 Thread darkflame
I wish to find the indexOf a new line in a large string and not sure how to do it in a cross-platform way neatly. I'll be iterating over the string doing this a lot, so I'd rather use a "proper" method rather then hacking something together. Normally I could use "System.getProperty("line.separator