Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:38:20 -0400 From: Vince Sabio <vince@vjs.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what character is a physical newline Message-ID: <p05200f50c66dd8cc3cd7@[192.168.5.248]> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310906281930k644b5d5fnf448decf8e489c4c@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A48252C.1090808@gmail.com> <4ad871310906281926i54fdac53u1d4681c8060e4d36@mail.gmail.com> <4A4826A5.6020506@gmail.com> <4ad871310906281930k644b5d5fnf448decf8e489c4c@mail.gmail.com>
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** At 22:30 -0400 on 06/28/2009, Glen Barber wrote: >On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > >> >>> 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) 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 (hex 0A) >Oh. IIRC, 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. __________________________________________________________________________ Vince Sabio vince@vjs.org
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