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Newline refers to a character sequence representing a line break in text (also known as End of Line, EOL, or Line Break). Different operating systems have different sequences for newlines.

Newline refers to a character sequence representing a line break in text (also known as End of Line, EOL, or Line Break). Different operating systems have different sequences for newlines.

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Make 'git diff' ignore ^M

In a project where some of the files contain ^M as newline separators, diffing these files is apparently impossible, since git diff sees the entire file as just a single line. How does one git diff when comparing the current and previous versions of…
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What are carriage return, linefeed, and form feed?

What is the meaning of the following control characters: Carriage return Line feed Form feed
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What does the ^M character mean in Vim?

I keep getting the ^M character in my .vimrc and it breaks my configuration.
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How can I insert a line break into a component in React Native?

I want to insert a new line (like \r\n,
) in a Text component in React Native. If I have:
Hi~
this is a test message.
 Then React Native renders Hi~ this is a test message. Is it possible render text to add a…
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How do I get a platform-independent new line character?

How do I get a platform-independent newline in Java? I can’t use "\n" everywhere.
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How do I force Git to use LF instead of CR+LF under Windows?

I want to force Git to check out files under Windows using just LF not CR+LF. I checked the two configuration options, but was not able to find the right combination of settings. I want to convert all files to have LF line breaks and keep the LF in…
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What is the JavaScript string newline character?

Is \n the universal newline character sequence in JavaScript for all platforms? If not, how do I determine the character for the current environment? I'm not asking about the HTML newline element (
). I'm asking about the newline character…
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Replace a newline in TSQL

I would like to replace (or remove) a newline character in a TSQL-string. Any Ideas? The obvious REPLACE(@string, CHAR(13), '') just won't do it...
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Split Java String by New Line

I'm trying to split text in a JTextArea using a regex to split the String by \n However, this does not work and I also tried by \r\n|\r|n and many other combination of regexes. Code: public void insertUpdate(DocumentEvent e) { String split[],…
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How to find out line-endings in a text file?

I'm trying to use something in bash to show me the line endings in a file printed rather than interpreted. The file is a dump from SSIS/SQL Server being read in by a Linux machine for processing. Are there any switches within vi, less, more,…
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./configure : /bin/sh^M : bad interpreter

I've been trying to install lpng142 on my fed 12 system. Seems like a problem to me. I get this error [root@localhost lpng142]# ./configure bash: ./configure: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory [root@localhost lpng142]# How do I…
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How to convert DOS/Windows newline (CRLF) to Unix newline (LF)

How can I programmatically (not using vi) convert DOS/Windows newlines to Unix newlines? The dos2unix and unix2dos commands are not available on certain systems. How can I emulate them with commands such as sed, awk, and tr?
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How do I handle newlines in JSON?

I've generated some JSON and I'm trying to pull it into an object in JavaScript. I keep getting errors. Here's what I have: var data = '{"count" : 1, "stack" : "sometext\n\n"}'; var dataObj = eval('('+data+')'); This gives me an error:…
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Writing string to a file on a new line every time

I want to append a newline to my string every time I call file.write(). What's the easiest way to do this in Python?
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Pass a PHP variable to a JavaScript variable

What is the easiest way to encode a PHP string for output to a JavaScript variable? I have a PHP string which includes quotes and newlines. I need the contents of this string to be put into a JavaScript variable. Normally, I would just construct my…
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