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
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