Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:22:11 +0200 From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what character is a physical newline Message-ID: <20090629092211.GB26781@marge.bs.l> In-Reply-To: <4A4826A5.6020506@gmail.com> References: <4A48252C.1090808@gmail.com> <4ad871310906281926i54fdac53u1d4681c8060e4d36@mail.gmail.com> <4A4826A5.6020506@gmail.com>
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Hi,
Am Sonntag, 28. Jun 2009, 22:27:49 -0400 schrieb Aryeh M. Friedman:
> 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)
$ perl -e 'print ord("\n"), "\n"'
10
$ python -c 'print ord("\n")'
10
$ ruby -e 'puts "\n"[0]'
10
$ cat nl.c
#include "stdio.h"
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
printf( "%d\n", '\n');
return 0;
}
$ cc -o nl nl.c
$ ./nl
10
$ echo | od -d
0000000 10
0000001
Bertram
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