newline character
Англо-русский словарь компьютерных терминов:
newline
смотри
newline character
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing:
newline
/n[y]oo'li:n/ Line feed or other
character sequence used to terminate a line of text.
Unix
uses
line feed
as its text line terminator - a
{Bell-Labs}-ism rather than a
Berkeley
ism. Interestingly
(and unusually for Unix jargon), it is said to have originally
been an
IBM
usage. Though the term "newline" appears in
ASCII
standards, it never caught on in the general
computing world before
Unix
. The encoding of line feed as
"\n" in
C
and
Unix
strings comes from this name.
The term has been used more generally for any end of line
character, character sequence (e.g. crlf), or operation
(like
Pascal
's writeln procedure or Lisp 1.5's
terpri
)
required to terminate a text record or separate lines.
[
Jargon File
]
(1997-07-14)
