Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
Etymologies
- new + line, coined at Bell Laboratories while developing the C programming language and UNIX operating systems. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“(The definition of "newline" depends on the presence or absence of the ` n, ` r or ` a options; by default. will not match ` r ` n.)”
“Special characters, such as newline or horizontal tab, are escaped with a backslash: '\n' or '\t' in this case.”
“The company service tech spent 3 hours diagnosing and fixing the problem, which involved running a newline.”
“Unix files have the newline character as the line delimiter not carriage return.”
“I wonder if . after /a is enough to avoid the newline disappearing bug.”
“This makes the div not create a newline between itself and everything else above/below.”
“The consumers choice should be an easy one as far as I'm concerned but now that Warner and newline have joined ranks with Shifty corp. oh no I mean Sony corp. things are as they would hope, just going to get more expensive for the consumer.”
“As I noted on the tagschema mailing list a while back, why the strict division between space, comma or newline anyway?”
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“I looked at the routine that loaded the list, and sure enough he did not chomp the newline off the end.”
“Since this value was then passed to be the pattern of a regular expression, it was only going to catch the spam if the values it was matching against had a newline after the occurrence of the url in question.”
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Babble Tech
Go Babble! Words, if you can call them that, from the world of technology and computers. I'll try to make sure each one is represented by a Wordnik example.
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