Differentiating between newline escape characters and carriage returns

[Abdullah Akbar]

Dear team,

I am trying to write code for reading files with text content. The problem is that the string values which I have contain both new line escape characters as well as carriage returns. I need to get my strings rid of the carriage returns only and not the new line escape characters. Could some one please help me out here?

System.out.println("START- " + dataString + " -END");
System.out.println();
System.out.println("START- " + dataString.replaceAll("\\n","") + " -END");
System.out.println();
System.out.println("START- " + dataString.replaceAll("\\r", "") + " -END"); --- doesn't work

The output is:


START- Configure synchronization and upload of all processes or specific process
Configure synchronization and upload of all processes or specific process -END

START- Configure synchronization and upload of all processes or specific process Configure synchronization and upload of all processes or specific process -END

START- Configure synchronization and upload of all processes or specific process
Configure synchronization and upload of all processes or specific process -END

[Rob Spoor]

Don't escape the \. \r has special meaning (carriage return) in both Java and in regular expressions.

[Campbell Ritchie]

. . . and welcome to the Ranch

[Abdullah Akbar]

Thank you very much Rob and Campbell.

[Rob Spoor]

You're welcome.