Text read from disk does not comply with new line character

Question

Using the Text widget with text that's read from disk, that contains new line characters \n, does not go to new line. Anyone have suggestions of how I can get around this? The text in the file is

The code for the image you see above is as follows:

Text(valueFromFile, style: TextStyle(color: Colors.red))

My text is being read from an Xml file that is contained in my assets folder.

Answer 1

The comment from uaraven above

Does your file contain actual '\n' characters? If so then that's not a new line character ...

Helped me come up with a solution. Since the Text Widget is interpreting the \n characters as normal characters, I just did a replace on it and inserted the actual escape character.

var correctlyEscapedString = valueFromFile.replaceAll('\\n', '\n');
Text(correctlyEscapedString, style: TextStyle(color: Colors.red));