Definitions
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- noun computing The
character or charactersequence that indicates the end of aline oftext and transition to the next line; or, acontrol code orescape sequence used in aprogramming language to denote this character.
Etymologies
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Examples
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(The definition of "newline" depends on the presence or absence of the ` n, ` r or ` a options; by default. will not match ` r ` n.)
AutoHotkey Community 2009
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Special characters, such as newline or horizontal tab, are escaped with a backslash: '\n' or '\t' in this case.
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The company service tech spent 3 hours diagnosing and fixing the problem, which involved running a newline.
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The company service tech spent 3 hours diagnosing and fixing the problem, which involved running a newline.
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Unix files have the newline character as the line delimiter not carriage return.
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I wonder if . after /a is enough to avoid the newline disappearing bug.
A message to women in their long billowy summer skirts. Ann Althouse 2009
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The consumers choice should be an easy one as far as I'm concerned but now that Warner and newline have joined ranks with Shifty corp. oh no I mean Sony corp. things are as they would hope, just going to get more expensive for the consumer.
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This makes the div not create a newline between itself and everything else above/below.
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As I noted on the tagschema mailing list a while back, why the strict division between space, comma or newline anyway?
Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » (Nutbush City) Delimiters 2005
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I looked at the routine that loaded the list, and sure enough he did not chomp the newline off the end.
Comment Spam 2004
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