Dear fiends,
I was trying to put comment section on my website.
The comments are saved in the one text file,from where they are written to and read from webpage.

I use a label control to show the comments cause i have no idea what to use.Comments are shown but are not exactly as seen on text file..
I wanted the comment to look like this, in the page..

Comments:hi how are you?
name:kalsdfsaf
posted on:20/22/23
-----------------------

comment:jkasdfa;kl;lsafdsafasdf
name:asdfsafsafdfsdff
posted on:20/22/93
-----------------------

but i get like this....

Comments:hi how are you?name:
kalsdfsafposted on:20/22/23--
-------------------comment:jk
asdfa;kl;lsafdsafasdfname:asd
fsafsafdfsdff----------------
----

And,What do i do to render the texts to the hypertext as like in this forum?

What I think is you are missing providing control line feeds. Please use control line feeds if you r not.

Regards,
Ali Irfan

And please also make sure that you are replacing line feed with <br> when assigning to label.

Regards,
Ali Irfan

Ya thanks , but actually


Comments:hi how are you?
name:kalsdfsaf
posted on:20/22/23
-----------------------

comment:jkasdfa;kl;lsafdsafasdf
name:asdfsafsafdfsdff
posted on:20/22/93
-----------------------

is the content of the file which are generated dynamically when a user posts a comment...comments are appended to the end.
Obviously, you wont know where "end of line?" will be, in this case.


got any other idea to show comments dynamically?

If i understand you correctly, your text file looks like this:
Comments:hi how are you?
name:kalsdfsaf
posted on:20/22/23
-----------------------

comment:jkasdfa;kl;lsafdsafasdf
name:asdfsafsafdfsdff
posted on:20/22/93
-----------------------

but when you read your text file the data gets displayed on your website like this:
Comments:hi how are you?name:
kalsdfsafposted on:20/22/23--
-------------------comment:jk
asdfa;kl;lsafdsafasdfname:asd
fsafsafdfsdff----------------
----

Correct?

Here is your problem, in your text file the end of line and carriage return is represented by these characters: \r\n

The issue is, when you read this information from your text file and display it on your website, a web browser doesn't interpert \r\n so your lines run together!

To remedy this, when you are writing the informaiton to your page do something like this:

StreamReader sr = File.OpenText("<path>");
string foo = sr.ReadToEnd().Replace("\r\n", "<br />");
or
string foo = sr.ReadToEnd().Replace(System.Environment.NewLine, "<br />");

hth.


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Dear Dparsons,

You absolutely understood me, Thanks to you millions...
I was trying to replace those \ns..but had no idea bout methods.
well, thankd u again.
peace

Dear Dparsons,

You absolutely understood me, Thanks to you millions...
I was trying to replace those \ns..but had no idea bout methods.
well, thank u again.
peace

Dear Dparsons,

By the way,I think that by employing a textfile to display comments might have a problem.
Like, this file resourse may not be accessible simulatanously when more than two user try to visit the "comment page". i think,I saw "file not accessible,other program or person might be using the file" kinda errors some time..

 Is the above error is true in asp.net 2.0?
 Is it good idea to use .txt file to store comments? or is it what everybody does..

will be thank ful for the guideance..

By and large, unless there is an extremely good reason, I don't recommend using flat files to store data and would suggest using a Database of some sort.

Yes, only one person can write to the text file at one time so if user A and user B both attempt to submit comments at the same time you can recieve the IO Error that the file is in use.

My suggestion would be to move your comments over to a database of some sort.

hth.

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thank you so much
Dparsins

peace