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newline

Noun

newline (plural newlines)

(computing) The character or character sequence that indicates the end of a line of text and transition to the next line; or, a control code or escape sequence used in a programming language to denote this character.
Microsoft Windows uses CRLF for newline.
- 1959, Association for Computing Machinery, Communications of the ACM (ACM Digital Library) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC67989652&id=f18fAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+newline%22+date:1900-1980&dq=%22a+newline%22+date:1900-1980&pgis=1 Page 599]
  The ugly part is the quote marks on two adjacent lines that mean a newline character.
- 1987, T. D. Brown, C for Basic Programmers [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0961533617&id=Kj1USSPT-ugC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=%22a+newline%22+date:1900-1990&sig=RpdNenlr9ftDgfkmguzTVrT6GY4#PPA13,M1 Page 13]
  The calculator program starts off by printing the string "0\n", that is, it prints a zero and then moves to a newline.
- 2002, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days, Page 69 ↗
  Unlike in C, you don't have to loop through the output and watch every character to make sure it's a newline; Perl will keep track of that for you.
- 2002, Allen B. Downey, Jeffrey Elkner and Chris Meyers, How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python
  It contains only a single statement, which outputs a newline character. (That's what happens when you use a print command without any arguments.)
- 2006, Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596528124&id=NYEX-Q9evKoC&pg=RA51-PA111&lpg=RA51-PA111&ots=qno3qVRtav&dq=%22a+newline%22+date:2004-2007&sig=DDelUf5rsKm2Kz80ebDpFHnr0fk Page 111]
  The original Unix regex tools worked on a line-by-line basis, so the thought of matching a newline wasn't an issue until the advent of sed and lex.

Synonyms

line break
end-of-line

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