how many characters is carriage return? [modified]

[nesfrank]

what is the number of characters a carriage returns has? is this the code: \r\n Please help

modified on Monday, September 29, 2008 1:46 PM

[Steven Jan]

Carriage return is '\r', linefeed is '\n'. Text files on Windows usually end lines with a carriage return and a linefeed character. But to answer your question: a carriage return has 1 character.

[nesfrank]

what about if it is a free text like this box that we post and we hit enter what is the character?

[Guffa]

As Steven said, the carriage return character is a single character. I think that what you actually are looking for is the new line character sequence. A new line sequence can either be one character (line feed) or two characters (carriage return + line feed). A unix/linux based system used a single character, while a DOS/Windows based system uses two characters. In C#, the escape sequence \r gives you the carriage return (CR) character, and the escape sequence \n gives you the line feed (LF) character. To get the new line character sequence for the system that the program is currently running on, use the Environment.NewLine property.

Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.

[leppie]

Environment.NewLine.Length = 2 :sigh:

xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)
((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))

[leppie]

2 characters, just as you see them.

xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)
((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))

[Guffa]

leppie wrote:

Environment.NewLine.Length = 2

Yes, in Microsoft's implementation of the CLR. If you run the same program in Mono on Linux, the length is one. :)

Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.