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Dear all ,
I use this

.split(lineSeperator);

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to split based on passed variable from user input, its work fine , but when user use '\n'
for new line its not working as expected.

Often what you have is carriage return, then line feed.

\r\n

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Therefore, make sure the character is indeed a newline versus a carriage return as well as not both.

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yes its a new line

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even \r\n don't work

ASKER

btw, when I use

.split('\n');

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its work fine...

I think this is why your previous question showed the optional carriage return ( \r? ). The standard line terminator under Windows is carriage-return/line-feed ( \r\n ). Not everyone follows this, though. Sometimes you have to make either optional in order to match against target data. In your case, I think you are looking for the optional carriage return, so I would modify your example to:

.split('\r?\n');

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In HTML it's <br>; otherwise, try to use vbCrlf instead of the text \n.

ASKER

none work,
its not html
@ Rainer Jescho, I have the data in text box

Can you attach a sample of the text as a file so that we can see what you are working with?

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http://jsfiddle.net/ethar1/8FBA9

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Rainer Jeschor, could you please explain why?