What is the newline character in the C language r or n

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What is the newline character in C  I know that different OS have different line-ending characters  but they get translated into the C newline character  What is that character

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What is the newline character in the C language: \r or \n?

The new-line may be thought of a some char and it has the value of '\n'. C11 5.2.1

This C new-line comes up in 3 places: C source code, as a single char and as an end-of-line in file I/O when in text mode.

Many compilers will treat source text as ASCII. In that case, codes 10, sometimes 13, and sometimes paired 13,10 as new-line for source code. Had the source code been in another character set, different codes may be used. This new-line typically marks the end of a line of source code (actually a bit more complicated here), // comment, and # directives.
In source code, the 2 characters \ and n represent the char new-line as \n. If ASCII is used, this char would have the value of 10.
In file I/O, in text mode, upon reading the bytes of the input file (and stdin), depending on the environment, when bytes with the value(s) of 10 (Unix), 13,10, (*1) (Windows), 13 (Old Mac??) and other variations are translated in to a '\n'. Upon writing a file (or stdout), the reverse translation occurs.
Note: File I/O in binary mode makes no translation.

The '\r' in source code is the carriage return char.

(*1) A lone 13 and/or 10 may also translate into \n.

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r    carriage return and   n    line feed   In fact  there are some different behaviors when you use them in different OSes  On Unix it is   n   but it is   r   n  on Windows

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It s  n  When you re reading or writing text mode files  or to stdin stdout etc  you must use  n  and C will handle the translation for you  When you re dealing with binary files  by definition you are on your own

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If you mean by newline the newline character it is  n and  r is the carrier return character  but if you mean by newline the line ending then it depends on the operating system  DOS uses carriage return and line feed    r n   as a line ending  which Unix uses just line feed    n

[c] What is the newline character in the C language: \r or \n?

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