Line Terminator (JavaScript) [duplicate]

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Can someone please explain to me what is a Line Terminator? I have trouble searching it online. It may be slightly irrelevant to the question but I would just like to know.

ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#sec-line-terminators

georg
– georg

2016-06-01 22:15:56 +00:00
Commented Jun 1, 2016 at 22:15 — georg
– georg, Commented Jun 1, 2016 at 22:15

Ryan · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-01 21:44:02Z

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A line terminator is OS specific. This doesn't have anything to do with JavaScript. On windows a line is terminated by the control character sequence \r\n, On UNIX like systems, it is \n.

Recall that control characters aren't printable characters, so the \r and \n is conceptual, but usually they're put in string literals to represent the control character.

answered Jun 1, 2016 at 21:44

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James Lee Over a year ago

Thank you. That really helps me to understand much better than the ones i see in the internet

Ryan Over a year ago

@JamesLess consider accepting the answer if you thought it was helpful.

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