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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To: Vince Sabio <vince@vjs.org>
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On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:38:20PM -0400, Vince Sabio wrote:

> ** At 22:30 -0400 on 06/28/2009, Glen Barber wrote:
> >On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> > >>
> >>> What do you mean exactly?  What language(s)?  If I understand your
> >>> question correctly, the C / C++ / Java / PHP (and I think Perl)
> > >> 'newline' character is '\n'
> > >
> >> I meant what ascii character does \n actual correspond to (I assume <CR> 
> >> but
> > > just making sure)
> 
> No, CR is a carriage return, which is a \r in C, and is an ASCII 13 (hex 
> 0D).
> 
> "Newline" is a line feed (LF), which is a \n in C, and is an ASCII 10 (hex 
> 0A)
> 
> >Oh.  IIRC, CR is the DOS way, and LR is the POSIX way.
> 
> Not exactly; CRLF is the DOS way, CR is the Macintosh way, and LF is 
> Unix/Posix.


A quick Google search for ASCII came up with this page:

   http://www.asciitable.com/

Which correctly lists Line Feed  (LF) as:  Decimal 10, Hex 0A, Octal 012

Carriage Return (CR) is:  Decimal 13, Hex 0D, Octal 015

////jerry



> 
> HTH.
> 
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> Vince Sabio                                                  vince@vjs.org
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