Why does Console.WriteLine() function miss some characters within a string?

Question

I have a string, declared as:

 string text = \"THIS IS LINE ONE \"+(Char)(13)+\" this is line 2\";

And yet, When I write Console.WriteLin

Answer 1

The output isn't what it seems. Your terminal program is hiding you some characters of the bytes written in stdout because he interprets the carriage return presence as a text layout command (which is, go back to left). A hexdump can confirm that the output is correct by showing the very bytes of output.

using System;
public class Hello1 {
  public static void Main()  {
     string text = "THIS IS LINE ONE "+(Char)(13)+" this is line 2";
     System.Console.WriteLine(text);
   }   
}

Compile and run :

$ gmcs a.cs
$ ./a.exe
 this is line 2E
$ ./a.exe | hexdump -C
00000000  54 48 49 53 20 49 53 20  4c 49 4e 45 20 4f 4e 45  |THIS IS LINE ONE|
00000010  20 0d 20 74 68 69 73 20  69 73 20 6c 69 6e 65 20  | . this is line |
00000020  32 0a                                             |2.|
00000022