Line protocol sample on docu not working

InfluxDB 2
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greetings

Why would the line protocol provided in the influxdb documentation not work?

iot-devices,building=5a temperature=72.3,humidity=34.1 1664647260000000000
iot-devices,building=5a temperature=72.1,humidity=33.8 1664733660000000000
iot-devices,building=5a temperature=72.2,humidity=33.7 1664820060000000000

Thanks!

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@yosiasz That’s the blog, not the docs, but either way, the line protocol looks valid. How is it not working?

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gotcha

this is how I am trying it

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Ok, and what error are you getting?

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this is the error I see and nothing in the cli

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Are you copying the line protocol from a text editor on a Windows machine?

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I am copying it from the blog directly, even if I save it to a csv file or text file, it throws the same error.

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Are you on a Windows machine?

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yes sir, sorry did not add that in the initial post

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so, I installed influxdb on a different windows machine and importing the data in first post works just fine.

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My guess it is has something to do with newline characters that Windows uses by default. Line protocol treats a newline (\n) as the line delimiter. Windows, by default, uses the carriage return + newline (\r\n) character sequence for newlines which causes the line protocol parser to fail. Typically when I see issues with raw line protocol not working on a Windows machine, these whitespace characters are the cause.

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