Is \n equivalent to Environment.NewLine in .NET? [duplicate]

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Difference between “\n” and Environment.NewLine

Hello all!

The way I understand it, when we use . symbol in format string for double, it doesn't mean "dot", it actually means "decimal separator used in current environment", so if we are working with non-US culture settings, the output can be 2,00 instead of 2.00. That's quite handy.

Now, is it also true for \n (LF) special symbol? Will it become System.Environment.NewLine symbol when the format string gets parsed or will it always be 0x0A value regardless of system settings? Environment.NewLine is kinda wordy and I wonder if I can just use \n safely instead.

Thanks in advance.

@jayrdub: yes, I know that, but that's exactly what I'm asking - whether \n means "\n" or "whatever endline symbols used in current environment" — Dyppl
– Dyppl, Commented Jun 4, 2011 at 22:38

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Dyppl Over a year ago

Thanks, one of the answer there partially suits my question as well

JeremyWeir · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-04 22:38:22Z

The point of using it is for portability between OSs

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.newline.aspx

A string containing "\r\n" for non-Unix platforms, or a string containing "\n" for Unix platforms.

Biff MaGriff · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-04 22:38:28Z

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If you don't like typing out System.Environment.NewLine set a local var to that value.

string n = System.Environment.NewLine; string stringWithStuff = "text!" + n + "moretext!";

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Biff MaGriff Over a year ago

There is nothing wrong with doing it this way.

sehe Over a year ago

It depends on the context, really

Oscar Mederos Over a year ago

@sehe What's wrong with that? You're not suggesting using a StringBuilder for that, are you?

sehe · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-04 22:38:00Z

You should probably aware that text writers have a NewLine property too

i.e.

using System; // ... Console.Write("eenie{0}meenie{0}minie{0}moe", Console.NewLine); Console.Out.Write("eenie{0}meenie{0}minie{0}moe", Console.Out.NewLine); Console.Error.Write("eenie{0}meenie{0}minie{0}moe", Console.Error.NewLine);

I'm not too sure from the top of my head whether that would always by definition be the same as System.Environment.NewLine. Cf. the docs

Akram Shahda · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-04 22:43:24Z

Refering to Environment.NewLine Property:

A string containing "\r\n" for non-Unix platforms, or a string containing "\n" for Unix platforms.

Also:

The property value of NewLine is a constant customized specifically for the current platform and implementation of the .NET Framework.

NewLine can be used in conjunction with language-specific newline support such as the escape characters '\r' and '\n' in Microsoft C# and C/C++, or vbCrLf in Microsoft Visual Basic.

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