Newline
Special characters in computing signifying the end of a line of text / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see New Line (disambiguation).
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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. This character, or a sequence of characters, is used to signify the end of a line of text and the start of a new one.[1]
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