Issue with writing newlines

I’m having an issue writing \n to cells. It’s stripping them from the file. I’m using version 0.4.2.

When I monkey patch exceljs to use the entities module, it works correctly.

This is not a permanent fix, just demonstrating how to patch it.

var utils = require('exceljs/lib/utils/utils');
utils.xmlEncode = require('entities').encodeXML;

Looking at the xmlEncode function it does look like it’s wrong, it’s not allowing \n (0x0A) through.

[stephengardner]

I’m on 0.5.1 and this issue isn’t fixed… Edit – okay, you really do still have to use style: { alignment: { wrapText: true } } when creating the column

That will work…

[holly-weisser]

Ok, I think I’ve got a solution working for new lines.

@Rycochet, can you PR the change you posted above, that lets the new line through? Nvm, I PR’d it.

With that change, I had to do two other things:

1. When constructing the WorkbookWriter, I needed to use the useSharedStrings and useStyles properties:

this.workbook = new Excel.stream.xlsx.WorkbookWriter({ useSharedStrings: true, useStyles: true });

1. When creating the workbook columns, I had to set the wrapText style property to true:

{ header: columnName, key: columnKey, width: 10, style: { alignment: { wrapText: true } } }