what character is a physical newline

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

Glen Barber wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Aryeh M.
> Friedman<aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> 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)
>>     
>
> 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)