Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:12:30 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what character is a physical newline Message-ID: <20090629151229.GE80667@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4A4857A0.6040809@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4A48252C.1090808@gmail.com> <4ad871310906281926i54fdac53u1d4681c8060e4d36@mail.gmail.com> <4A4826A5.6020506@gmail.com> <4A4857A0.6040809@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:56:48AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > 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 Gee, wouldn't you know it, in FreeBSD, there is even a man page for it. ////jerry > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > Kent, CT11 9PW >
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