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Asked: 2026-06-07T15:42:24+00:00

I am wondering that when I open a file in notepad. I see a

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I am wondering that when I open a file in notepad. I see a continuous line without any carriage return/line feed.

I made a java program to read the file. When I split the data from file by using \n or System.getProperty("line.separator");. I see lots of lines.

I found in hex editor that file has ‘0A’ for new line ( used in UNIX ) and it appears as a rectangle in Notepad.

Well, my question is that if it doesn’t have ‘0D’ and ‘OA’ ( used in Windows for carriage return and line feed ). How my java program is splitting the data into lines? It should not split it.

Anyone have any idea?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Java internally works with Unicode.

    The Unicode standard defines a large number of characters that
    conforming applications should recognize as line terminators:[3]
    LF: Line Feed, U+000A
    VT: Vertical Tab, U+000B
    FF: Form Feed, U+000C
    CR: Carriage Return, U+000D
    CR+LF: CR (U+000D) followed by LF (U+000A)
    NEL: Next Line, U+0085
    LS: Line Separator, U+2028
    PS: Paragraph Separator, U+2029

    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline)
    That’s why it interprets \n as newline.

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