what character is a physical newline

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> I am writting a parser (tokenizes all characters among other things) 
> and need to know what control char is equivelent to a newline (I do 
> not need windows cross compatibility)
>
Forgot to mention before someone recommends lex/yacc and/or some other 
parser generator (I am working in Java) there are internal design 
reasons to my over all project why I am writting a lexer/parser from scratch