Question

How can I preview a text with the new line characters represented in a way I can actually see them?

for example instead of:

bla bla
bla
...

I want to see something like

bla bla[\n]
bla[\r]
...

but I want to see what type of character is it, because some are \n and some are \r…

the reason for this is that I have two pieces of text that are apparently different when processed by a javascript syntax-highlighting function, but they actually have the same content.

I want to see if they really have different end of line characters

Answer 1

Javascript:

function raw(str){
    return str.replace(/\t/g,'\\t').replace(/\r\n/g,'\\r\\n').replace(/\r/g,'\\r').replace(/\n/g,'\\n');
}

If you don’t care about \t, just remove it above.