In terms of ascii code, it’s 3 — since they’re 10 and 13 respectively;-). But seriously, there are many: in Unix and all Unix-like systems, \n is the code for end-of-line, \r means nothing special as a consequence, in C and most languages that somehow copy it (even remotely), \n is the standard escape sequence for end of line (translated to/from … Read more
\r is a carriage return character; it tells your terminal emulator to move the cursor at the start of the line. The cursor is the position where the next characters will be rendered. So, printing a \r allows to override the current line of the terminal emulator. Tom Zych figured why the output of your … Read more
System.Environment.NewLine is the constant you are looking for – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.newline.aspx which will provide environment specific combination that most programs on given OS will consider “next line of text”. In practice most of the text tools treat all variations that include \n as “new line” and you can just use it in your text “foo\nbar”. Especially … Read more
\n is Unix, \r is Mac, \r\n is Windows. Sometimes it’s giving trouble especially when running code cross platform. You can bypass this by using Environment.NewLine. Please refer to What is the difference between \r, \n and \r\n ?! for more information. Happy reading
In Java, the newline and carriage return characters are both seem to be showing same effect. What are the actual differences between char literals \n and \r in Java? Note that the above asks about the \n character, not the newLine() function on BufferedWriter, and so this other question isn’t relevant.
A line feed means moving one line forward. The code is \n.A carriage return means moving the cursor to the beginning of the line. The code is \r. Windows editors often still use the combination of both as \r\n in text files. Unix uses mostly only the \n. The separation comes from typewriter times, when you turned the wheel to move the paper to … Read more