newline
Sign in to saveAlso known as line break, new line, newlines, new lines
thumb|A newline inserted between the words "Hello" and "world" A newline (frequently called line ending, end of line (EOL), next line (NEL) or line break) is a control character or sequence of control characters in character encoding specifications such as ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, etc. A newline is used to signify the end of a line of text and the start of a new one.
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Representation
- Communication protocols
- Unicode
- HTML
- In programming languages
- Issues with different newline formats
- Conversion between newline formats
- Interpretation
- Reverse and partial line feeds
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|A newline inserted between the words "Hello" and "world" A newline (frequently called line ending, end of line (EOL), next line (NEL) or line break) is a control character or sequence of control characters in character encoding specifications such as ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, etc. A newline is used to signify the end of a line of text and the start of a new one.
== History ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “newline” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.