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Date:      Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:46:12 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        Vince Sabio <vince@vjs.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what character is a physical newline
Message-ID:  <4ad871310906281946g7ed9c1d6m477fd3dfecc8d330@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Vince Sabio<vince@vjs.org> wrote:
> ** At 22:30 -0400 on 06/28/2009, Glen Barber wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
>> =A0>>
>>>>
>>>> =A0What do you mean exactly? =A0What language(s)? =A0If I understand y=
our
>>>> =A0question correctly, the C / C++ / Java / PHP (and I think Perl)
>>
>> =A0>> 'newline' character is '\n'
>> =A0>
>>>
>>> =A0I meant what ascii character does \n actual correspond to (I assume =
<CR>
>>> but
>>
>> =A0> just making sure)
>
> No, CR is a carriage return, which is a \r in C, and is an ASCII 13 (hex
> 0D).
>
> "Newline" is a line feed (LF), which is a \n in C, and is an ASCII 10 (he=
x
> 0A)
>
>> Oh. =A0IIRC, CR is the DOS way, and LR is the POSIX way.
>
> Not exactly; CRLF is the DOS way, CR is the Macintosh way, and LF is
> Unix/Posix.
>
> HTH.
>

Thanks for correcting me.

Goes to show that bad advice is worse than no advice. :)

--=20
Glen Barber



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