I’d like to know the difference (with examples if possible) between
CR LF (Windows), LF (Unix) and CR (Macintosh) line break types.
I’d like to know the difference (with examples if possible) between CR LF (Windows),
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I’d like to know the difference (with examples if possible) between
CR LF (Windows), LF (Unix) and CR (Macintosh) line break types.
It’s really just about which bytes are stored in a file.
CRis a bytecode for carriage return (from the days of typewriters) andLFsimilarly, for line feed. It just refers to the bytes that are placed as end-of-line markers.There is way more information, as always, on Wikipedia.