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I'm trying to write a string \n in a text file. But the result in the text file is a newline. I know that the \n represents a newline. But in my case, I really need to see the String \n, not the newline. How can I solve this?

mort
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DFE
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    have you tried to escape the escape character? example. .\\n ? :) or put it inside quotes '\n'. . – sailhenz Aug 15 '11 at 09:45
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The \ character escapes the next character, as you say \n will create a newline. If you wish to output an actual \, you need to write:

"\\n"

That way the first slash escapes the second slash, generating an actual slash rather than escaping the n.

Qwerky
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Charles Keepax
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Use "\\n". The first backslash escapes the second one and as a result one is printed to your output.

Nicola Musatti
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you have to escape the backslash, so double it:

out("\\n")
berlindev
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Do you mean

pw.print("\\n"); // print \ and n

instead of

pw.print("\n"); // print new line.
Peter Lawrey
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You need to escape the \. This can be done by entering \\.

borrible
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What you want is to print two characters, namely \ and n. According to your language's manual, to print \ you must escape it. n is not among the characters you must escape. Therefore, you write \\ and n, thus \\n.

Sebastian Mach
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