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Newline vs Linux - What's the difference?

newline | linux |

Linux is likely misspelled.


Linux has no English definition.

As a noun newline

is the character or character sequence that indicates the end of a line of text and transition to the next line; or, a control code or escape sequence used in a programming language to denote this character.

newline

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing) The character or character sequence that indicates the end of a line of text and transition to the next line; or , a control code or escape sequence used in a programming language to denote this character.
  • :* Microsoft Windows uses CRLF for newline .
  • *1959, Association for Computing Machinery, Communications of the ACM (ACM Digital Library) Page 599
  • *:The ugly part is the quote marks on two adjacent lines that mean a newline character.
  • *1987, T. D. Brown, C for Basic Programmers Page 13
  • *:The calculator program starts off by printing the string "0\n", that is, it prints a zero and then moves to a newline .
  • *2002, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days , Page 69
  • *:Unlike in C, you don't have to loop through the output and watch every character to make sure it's a newline ; Perl will keep track of that for you.
  • *2002, Allen B. Downey, Jeffrey Elkner and Chris Meyers,
  • *:It contains only a single statement, which outputs a newline character. (That's what happens when you use a print command without any arguments.)
  • *2006, Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions Page 111
  • *:The original Unix regex tools worked on a line-by-line basis, so the thought of matching a newline wasn't an issue until the advent of sed and lex.
  • Synonyms

    * line break * end-of-line

    See also

    * control code * control character * escape character * escape sequence

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