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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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See line breaks and carriage returns in editor

Is there a text editor on Linux that allows me to see line breaks and carriage returns? Does Vim support this feature?
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Remove blank lines with grep

I tried grep -v '^$' in Linux and that didn't work. This file came from a Windows file system.
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Add line break within tooltips

How can line breaks be added within a HTML tooltip? I tried using
and \n within the tooltip as follows: Hover me However, this was useless and I could see the…
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awk without printing newline

I want the variable sum/NR to be printed side-by-side in each iteration. How do we avoid awk from printing newline in each iteration ? In my code a newline is printed by default in each iteration for file in cg_c ep_c is_c tau xhpl printf "\n $file"…
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String Resource new line /n not possible?

It doesn't seem like it's possible to add a new line /n to an XML resource string. Is there another way of doing this?
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How to do a newline in output

How do I make \n actually work in my output? At the moment it just writes it all in 1 long block. Thanks for any help Dir.chdir 'C:/Users/name/Music' music = Dir['C:/Users/name/Music/*.{mp3, MP3}'] puts 'what would you like to call the…
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What are these ^M's that keep showing up in my files in emacs?

I think it may have to do with TextMate, but we work in a small team and are having some issues with full-file conflicts of nearly identical files in git – in one branch the files have a ^M appended to each line. What is this mysterious ^M character…
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Eclipse and Windows newlines

I had to move my Eclipse workspace from Linux to Windows when my desktop crashed. A week later I copy it back to Linux, code happily, commit to CVS. And alas, windows newlines have polluted many files, so CVS diff dumps the entire file, even when I…
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Generating CSV file for Excel, how to have a newline inside a value

I need to generate a file for Excel, some of the values in this file contain multiple lines. there's also non-English text in there, so the file has to be Unicode. The file I'm generating now looks like this: (in UTF8, with non English text mixed in…
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How do you search for files containing DOS line endings (CRLF) with grep on Linux?

I want to search for files containing DOS line endings with grep on Linux. Something like this: grep -IUr --color '\r\n' . The above seems to match for literal rn which is not what is desired. The output of this will be piped through xargs into…
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How can I print a string adding newlines in Java?

I have a string like "I am a boy". I would like to print it this way "I am a boy". Can anybody help me?
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How do I create a new line in Javascript?

var i; for(i=10; i>=0; i= i-1){ var s; for(s=0; s
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Importing CSV with line breaks in Excel 2007

I'm working on a feature to export search results to a CSV file to be opened in Excel. One of the fields is a free-text field, which may contain line breaks, commas, quotations, etc. In order to counteract this, I have wrapped the field in double…
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Stop Visual Studio from mixing line endings in files

When opening a text based file in Visual Studio 2010 it will then write my edits with CRLF instead of the line ending format of the original file. How can I stop VS from doing this? Any half decent editor should have this capability. What's worse is…
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Converting newline formatting from Mac to Windows

I need a conversion utility/script that will convert a .sql dump file generated on Mac to one readable on Windows. This is a continuation of a problem I had here. The issue seems to be with newline formatting in text files, but I can't find a tool…
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