End of Line

LineEnding is end of line marker. This constant (system unit) is used when writing end of lines to text files.

End of line markers

(Better/also known as line ending characters)

• Line feed (LF, #10 ): Linux, OS X, BSDs, Unix
• Carriage return + Line feed (CRLF, #13#10): Microsoft Windows
• Carriage return (CR, #13): Mac OS Classic

Mac OS X often accepts Line feed and Carriage return.

See also

• LineEnding Constant describing the current line ending character.
• SetTextLineEnding Set the end-of-line character for the given text file.