Convert DOS line endings to Linux line endings and vice versa in java

Question

Any suggestions on how to effectivley do this? I need it for autmization of .sql-data-delivery and couldn't find a solution till now. For reading out the encoding i use the juniversalchardet-1.0.3 library, which works pretty well. Still i also have to read out the the line-ending format and if needed change it. any help would be apprececiated.

Answer 1

Found a solution: http://ostermiller.org/utils/LineEnds.html Works like a charm. Feel free to use it if u have a similar problem.

Answer 2

You can use the org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils-class. They have the fields LINE_SEPARATOR_UNIX and LINE_SEPARATOR_WINDOWS.