Nice idea, but unfortunately my server doesn't support servlet's, which limits me somewhat :)
On 6 August 2010 22:06, Thomas Jackson <[email protected]> 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 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]. >> 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. > -- 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.
