Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:56:48 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what character is a physical newline Message-ID: <4A4857A0.6040809@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4A4826A5.6020506@gmail.com> References: <4A48252C.1090808@gmail.com> <4ad871310906281926i54fdac53u1d4681c8060e4d36@mail.gmail.com> <4A4826A5.6020506@gmail.com>
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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Glen Barber wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Aryeh M.
>> Friedman<aryeh.friedman@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)
On Unix, the end of line character is NL (012 octal, 10 decimal, 0x0a hex) --
see ascii(7). Some people know it as Ctrl-J
Cheers,
Matthew
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