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noun 
  1. (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 .
  1. 1959, Association for Computing Machinery, Communications of the ACM (ACM Digital Library) http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC67989652&id=f18fAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+newline%22+date:1900-1980&dq=%22a+newline%22+date:1900-1980&pgis=1 Page 599
  2. :The ugly part is the quote marks on two adjacent lines that mean a character.
  3. 1987, T. D. Brown, C for Basic Programmers http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0961533617&id=Kj1USSPT-ugC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=%22a+newline%22+date:1900-1990&sig=RpdNenlr9ftDgfkmguzTVrT6GY4
  4. PPA13,M1 Page 13
  5. :The calculator program starts off by printing the string "O\n", that is, it prints a zero and then moves to a .
  6. 2002, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days, http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0672320355&id=trejcrrdSwAC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&ots=uak9Y47ziI&dq=%22a+newline%22&sig=NjiOML1qWIW3tNbze6sG9zWv6zY Page 69
  7. :Unlike in C, you don't have to loop through the output and watch every character to make sure it's a ; Perl will keep track of that for you.
  8. 2002, Allen B. Downey, Jeffrey Elkner and Chris Meyers, s:How to Think Like a Computer Scientist/Chapter 3, How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python
  9. :It contains only a single statement, which outputs a character. (That's what happens when you use a print command without any arguments.)
  10. 2006, Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596528124&id=NYEX-Q9evKoC&pg=RA51-PA111&lpg=RA51-PA111&ots=qno3qVRtav&dq=%22a+newline%22+date:2004-2007&sig=DDelUf5rsKm2Kz80ebDpFHnr0fk Page 111
  11. :The original Unix regex tools worked on a line-by-line basis, so the thought of matching a wasn't an issue until the advent of sed and lex.
Etymology: new + line — the term was coined at Bell Laboratories while developing the C programming language and UNIX operating systems.


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