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 at 4:02 PM, darkflame <[email protected]> wrote: > 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...which could have been created on anything. > And I simply want to read over it detecting the lines in the most > efficient way. > > At the moment I'm doing it with; > > int newlineloc = IncomingScriptFile.indexOf("\r",pos); > int newlineloc2 = IncomingScriptFile.indexOf("\n",pos); > newlineloc = (newlineloc<newlineloc2)?newlineloc:newlineloc2; > > Which doesn't seem too neat, and I'm not sure it deals with all > possibilities. > > > On Aug 6, 9:42 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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") " to > > > identify the character needed, and then just use that in the indexOf > > > statement. But that doesn't compile under gwt, so does anyone know a > > > good alternative method? > > > > > Cheers, > > > Thomas :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
