ExtendScript - Writing LF file on Windows

[woodced]

Hi, 

I'm trying to use ExtendScript ot write a file to an LF (not CRLF) file in Windows. I'm finding that even when I write a string with \n characters, they are being replaced by \r\n characters in the final file.

Is there some magic I'm missing

var writeToFile = function (str, filePath) {
    var outFile = new File(filePath);
    if (outFile) { 
        outFile.encoding = "UTF-8";
        outFile.open("w", "TEXT", "????");
        outFile.write(str);
        outFile.close();
    }
}
 
for(var i=0;i<allMarkers.length;i++){
        var marker = allMarkers[i];
        var line = "AUTHOR\t" + marker.tc + "\tV1\tred\t\t1";
        str += line;
        if (i < allMarkers.length - 1){
            str += "\n"; //Aleays seems to be replaced by \r\n when writing the file
        }
    }
    var outputFilePath = "PATHTO\\" + sequenceName + ".txt";
    writeToFile(str, outputFilePath);

[Tomas Sinkunas · Accepted solution]

What if you specified line feed manually?

outFile.lineFeed = "Unix"; // "Windows", "Macintosh", "Unix"

More info here: http://estk.aenhancers.com/file-system-access/file-object.html?#file-object-properties

[woodced]

Excellent Tomas. That's works perfectly.

[tmmls]

Thanks for your input Tomas ...