Sunday, April 12, 2015

What is line feed and Carriage return in Flat file in SSIS

A line feed means moving one line forward. The code is \n. A carriage return means moving the cursor to the beginning of the line. The code is \r.

The separation comes from typewriter times, when you turned the wheel to move the paper to change the line and moved the carriage to restart typing on the beginning of a line. This was two steps.
Windows editors often still use the combination of both in text files. Unix uses mostly only the \n.

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  1. The concept of line feed and carriage return is always helpful but at the same time difficult to understand for many people in SSIS.

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