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Posted to dev@velocity.apache.org by "Geir Magnusson Jr." <gm...@xyris.com> on 2000/12/04 17:36:47 UTC
RE: Platform independent formatting
the line terminator is a system property
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jvanzyl@periapt.com [SMTP:jvanzyl@periapt.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 11:41 AM
> To: velocity-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Platform independent formatting
>
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering if anyone had any thoughts about
> using templates that are produced on one platform
> and generating output on another.
>
> My example is line endings. In Torque I chop off
> commas and line endings in the generated SQL, but
> I am assuming unix style line endings. Just wondering
> if anyone has a more elegant tactic then converting
> all the text to be operated on to unix style line
> endings before operating on the text. Or possibly
> make a chomp() type method as in perl that removes
> line endings in a platform independent manner.
>
> jvz.