Line breaks within text field

[ApatheticZeal]

Does anyone know how twitter handles line breaks within the text field in the JSON they return? Do they just include a ‘\n’ character or just ignore it? I’ve looked around and can’t seen to find an answer.

I’m asking because I have a load of tweets saved to a txt file with each tweet on a new line. The problem is that when I read in the txt file I end up with more entries than there are lines in the file. I’ve checked everything else and the last thing I can think of is that some of the tweets contain a ‘\n’ and are being split across multiple entries.

[IgorBrigadir]

Yes, tweets escape newlines with \n, so the JSON you get from the API should be something like:

"text":"multi\nline\ntweet"

If you’ve saved those in a file, and ended up with:

"text":"multi
line
tweet"

You’ll need to fix that somehow (replace any newline character with \n if it’s in the “text” field).

[ApatheticZeal]

Thanks IgorBrigadir! That was it! Added something to take care of that and the problem is solved.