what character is a physical newline

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 02:30:42 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Aryeh M.
Friedman<aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What do you mean exactly?  What language(s)?  If I understand your
>> question correctly, the C / C++ / Java / PHP (and I think Perl)
>> 'newline' character is '\n'
>>
>>
>
> I meant what ascii character does \n actual correspond to (I assume <CR> but
> just making sure)
>

Oh.  IIRC, CR is the DOS way, and LR is the POSIX way.

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Glen Barber


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