Changing std::endl to put out CR+LF instead of LF

Question

I\'m writing a program on a Linux platform that is generating text files that will be viewed on, inevitably, a Windows platform.

Right now, passing std::endl

Answer 1

You shouldn't use \r\n. Just use \n, but then open the stream in "text" mode, which than will do the conversion for you. You may not care about cross-platform, but this is the official way of doing it.

That way, the same code will spit-out \n on unix, \r\n on windows, and \r on mac.