End of Line

Depending on what computer system a text file was created on, lines might be terminated by one character or two characters. The following sequences all count as line terminators, regardless of what particular system you are using.

• A newline (line feed) character \n [Unix and Linux systems]
• A carriage-return character \r [older Apple computers]
• A carriage-return character followed immediately by a newline character \r\n [Microsoft systems]
• A next-line character \u0085 [Unicode text files]
• A line-separator character \u2028 [Unicode text files]
• A paragraph-separator character \u2029 [Unicode text files]

For ordinary text files created with text editors on most systems, only the first three are common.