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jmousavi
New Contributor
6 years ago

How to write GET request content to a file with new lines instead of \n characters

I am trying to get an expression library from the Github API and save the content into a file in Snaplogic. When I get the content from the GET snap, it has \n characters and doesn’t recognize them a...
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koryknick
Employee
6 years ago

If you are on Windows, try using \r\n in the Line Separator value of the Fixed Width Formatter. It may be that you’re trying to look at the file using a Windows-based editor and it is expecting the “carriage-return/line-feed” characters to indicate newline and it doesn’t understand the “line-feed” record terminator that is default on this snap.