Cannot copy and paste code - carriage return/line feeds missing or not present

[anthonyrichards]

Why, when I tried to copy a blockof posted code (from Paul Curtis on the Excel - from - Fortran thread)and paste it intoa new file opened in DevStudio, it failed to produce anything ?

If I copied a smaller portion, when pasted I get a single record with no line breaks.

Is there a way round this?

[jimdempseyatthecove]

Anthony,

Try pasting into Wordpad. Then save as DOS Text file.

Jim Dempsey

[anthonyrichards]

Thanks Jim, that worked fine!

It's a hellava thing to have to do that to be able to extract posted code though, Steve?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Yeah, this bugs me too. I'll bring it up to the maintainers.

[jimdempseyatthecove]

>>It's a hellava thing to have to do that to be able to extract posted code though

It is annoying. This is an IDE thing (VS). VS should be able to handle pasting in HTML and converting to text. (MS problem).

I can see the finger pointing now...

Sometimes NOTEPAD will work, WordPad seems to work all the time.

Jim

[Steven_L_Intel1]

It seems to depend on how you pasted the code into the post. I've seen this happen elsewhere with code displayed on a web page. It looks ok but if you copy and paste it you lose line breaks.

Theoretically if you use the "Paste Code from Clipboard" (C++ button!) it should work better but Firefox complains that clipboard access is not allowed for security...