Text Visualizer

[aronmatthew]

I'm having a problem after a new install of visual studio. I cant see any newline chars ext.. in the text visualizer. Here is my current version.
Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022
Version 17.10.4
VisualStudio.17.Release/17.10.4+35027.167
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.8.09032

 

[Skydiver]

That is correct behavior. The text visualizer is supposed to show you the text as how it would be displayed. It is not a hex editor.

I get the same behavior:

 

[jmcilhinney]

The text you are looking at has line breaks in it. That's the effect of those characters. That is how they are represented in text.

 

[aronmatthew]

The problem that I'm having is when trying to copy text from a richTextBox it seems to contain unknown chars at the end resulting in many new lines.

 

[Skydiver]

... The visualizer was showing you these new lines. Notice how the caret is several lines below the rest of the text when you put the focus is the visualizer:

 

[Skydiver]

Anyway, to see all characters in the string. Open the Immediate window and type in CopyToolText.ToCharArray().

Example:

 

[Skydiver]

As an aside, there is no need to do this:

CopyToolLabel = CopyToolLabel.Trim(' ');
CopyToolLabel = CopyToolLabel.Trim('\r');
CopyToolLabel = CopyToolLabel.Trim('\n');

You could simply do:

CopyToolLabel = CopyToolLabel.Trim();

which will remove all leading and trailing whitespace. The characters ' ', '\r', '\n' are considered whitespace characters.