Questions tagged [trailing-newline]

A trailing newline is a newline character that appears at the end of a file or a line or a string.

Overview

A trailing newline is a newline character that appears at the end of a file or a line or a string.

It is a common convention in many operating systems and programming languages to include a trailing newline at the end of text files.

Questions that may be appropriate for this tag include:

How to add a trailing newline to a file using a specific programming language?
How to remove a trailing newline from a file or string using a specific programming language?
What is the purpose of a trailing newline in a text file?

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How to print without a newline or space

Consider these examples using print in Python: >>> for i in range(4): print('.') . . . . >>> print('.', '.', '.', '.') . . . . Either a newline or a space is added between each value. How can I avoid that, so that the output is .... instead? In…

python trailing-newline

asked Jan 29 '09 at 20:58

Andrea Ambu

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Python script should end with new line or not ? Pylint contradicting itself?

I am new to Pylint, and when I run it against my script, I get this output: C: 50, 0: Trailing newlines (trailing-newlines) Here, Pylint is saying that it is bad to have a final newline. I like to have a new line at the end of my scripts, so I…

python vim static-analysis pylint trailing-newline

asked Apr 19 '17 at 09:22

Prem

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Powershell: stdout and stderr to separate files, without new lines

I'm trying to store the stdout and stderr outputs of a command to two separate files. I'm doing this like so: powershell.exe @_cmd 2>"stderr.txt" >"stdout.txt" Where $_cmd is an arbitrary string command. This works, but the output files have…

powershell io-redirection trailing-newline

asked Jun 16 '21 at 21:46

Jordan

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Trailing newline when using scanf() to take string input with whitespace

I am getting problem when using scanf() to take int input, then move to take a whole string that also accept whitespace in it. But somehow the scanf() take place first before the printf() even showed up. Still playing around with either scanf() and…

c printf scanf trailing-newline

asked Jan 23 '23 at 04:51

hotpotcookie

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I cannot get Emacs to stop asking me about adding a newline at the end of file

Emacs keeps on asking me Buffer text.txt does not end in newline. And one? (y or n) I am confused about why I cannot stop Emacs from making this inquiry. I've set both require-final-newline mode-require-final-newline to nil in a hook to…

if-statement emacs trailing-newline

asked Feb 14 '22 at 21:19

A.Ellett

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How can I make `Tee-Object` not adding a trailing newline in PowerShell?

Tee-Object does not have a -NoNewline switch like many other output-to-file-cmdlets (e. g. Out-File, Set-Content). Under the hood, Tee-Object uses Out-File to write to a file, which adds a trailing newline by default. As I (currently) cannot pass…

powershell newline tee trailing-newline powershell-7.2

asked Dec 14 '21 at 13:19

stackprotector

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Add missing trailing newline to all files in Git repo

Many files in my Git repo are missing a trailing newline: For consistency, and to remove git-related visual clutter, I would like to automatically add it where it is missing.

bash trailing-newline

asked Dec 15 '20 at 05:09

P i

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powershell add extra /r/n

I try to replace some value in the json file, and then submit the update json file to the git repo. But the json file add extra \r\n. My test scripts is below: $TempFile =…

json git powershell newline trailing-newline

asked Jul 04 '23 at 11:59

Joy

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Why does " %c" in scanf fix the trailing newline character problem?

I am aware that there are numerous posts about why the trailing newline character problem occurs and how to fix it. However, of all the solutions out there, the use scanf(" %c", ch) method is the most common one. Yet no one discusses why it works!…

c scanf newline inputstream trailing-newline

asked Oct 15 '22 at 03:54

Prithvidiamond

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Linux usb serial line input may lose the trailing new line

I am testing a serial communication protocol based on printable characters only. The setup has a pc connected to an arduino board by USB. The PC USB serial is operated in canonical mode, with no echo, no flow control, 9600 baud. Since a read timeout…

linux usb tty trailing-newline

asked Jun 26 '22 at 17:34

Marcus

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How do I remove the default newline character from read and write in Fortran?

I am using Fortran 90 and I am trying to get the following without new line do i=1,size read*, y(i) end do with this, I always get the stdin by using the enter key. Like this Now, I want this without pressing the Enter key, like C++. How can I…

fortran newline trailing-newline

asked Feb 03 '22 at 17:43

Owl0223

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Serializing class structure to XML seems to add a NewLine character

The code below serializes XML into a string, then writes it to an XML file (yes quite a bit going on with respect to UTF8 and removal of the Namespace): var bidsXml = string.Empty; var emptyNamespaces = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(new[] {…

c# utf-8 xml-namespaces xmlserializer trailing-newline

asked Jun 23 '21 at 18:51

Bill Roberts

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Why does pandas df show tsv's mandatory trailing-newline from pd.read_csv() as NaN?

My programming professor and the internet say I must always append exactly one empty line (=trailing newline) to all my output text files. Why does my_df = pd.read_csv('my.tsv', delimiter='\t', skip_blank_lines=True) still read this \n into my…

python pandas csv trailing-newline

asked Jun 01 '21 at 16:23

ilam engl

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Remove \n when a line item is being called by subprocess.call (python)

I'm new to scripting / programming and I have a simple script here that takes a .txt file as an input. Within that txt file is a list of encoded data. I am trying to decode them line by line using the subprocess module. However, when I run the…

python python-3.x subprocess newline trailing-newline

asked Dec 18 '20 at 23:10

jayteezer

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remove \n from a line in python

python newline trailing-newline

asked Nov 22 '22 at 15:28

anea

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