Setting Java VM line.separator

Question

Has anybody found a way how to specify the Java line.separator property on VM startup? I was thinking of something like this:

java -Dline.separa         


        

Answer 1

I wouldn't do that if I were you. The line-separator is platform specific, and should remain so. If you want to write windows-only or linux-only files, define a UNIX_LINE_SEPARATOR constant somewhere and use it instead.