newline

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newline

Summary

newline is a control character[1]. newline draws 463 Wikipedia views per month (control_character category, ranking #1 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • newline's instance of is recorded as control character[3].
  • newline's instance of is recorded as delimiter[4].
  • newline's instance of is recorded as terminator[5].
  • newline's said to be the same as is recorded as carriage return, line feed[6].
  • newline's said to be the same as is recorded as next line[7].
  • newline's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01jmrt[8].
  • newline's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/newline[9].
  • newline's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/line-breaks[10].
  • newline's different from is recorded as pilcrow[11].
  • newline's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779468150[12].

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Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include control character[3], delimiter[4], and terminator[5].

Why It Matters

newline draws 463 Wikipedia views per month (control_character category, ranking #1 of 7).[2] newline has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] newline is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). newline. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/newline
MLA “newline.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/newline.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_newline_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{newline}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/newline}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): newline — https://4ort.xyz/entity/newline (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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