(thing) by chromatic Wed Dec 01 1999 at 11:35:46
The C-style escaped character which translates to a newline in printed output. It is not limited to C, but applies in many other fine whitespace ignoring programming languages.

In Unix and fine variants (that does NOT include DOS), it also indicates the end of a line.

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