End of Line

LineEnding is end of line marker. This constant (system unit) is used when writing end of lines to text files. In other words, it starts a new line.

End of line markers

(Better/also known as line ending characters)

• Line feed (LF, #10 ): Linux, macOS, BSDs, Unix
• Carriage return + Line feed (CRLF, #13#10): Microsoft Windows
• Carriage return (CR, #13): Mac OS Classic

macOS often accepts Line feed and Carriage return.

See also

• LineEnding Constant describing the current line ending character.
• SetTextLineEnding Set the end-of-line character for the given text file.
• sLineBreak is an alias for LineEnding and is supplied for compatibility.

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