Editing Newline (section)

{{short description|Special characters in computing signifying the end of a line of text}}
{{Other uses|New Line (disambiguation)}}
{{redirect|Endl|the botanist|Stephan Endlicher}}
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{{more citations needed|date=February 2016}}

[[File:Illustration of a newline.png|thumb|A newline inserted between the words "Hello" and "world"]]
A '''newline''' (frequently called '''line ending''', '''end of line''' ('''EOL'''), '''next line''' ('''NEL''') or '''line break''') is a [[control character]] or sequence of control characters in [[character encoding]] specifications such as [[ASCII]], [[EBCDIC]], [[Unicode]], etc. This character, or a sequence of characters, is used to signify the end of a [[line (text file)|line of text]] and the start of a new one.<ref>{{Cite web|title=What is a Newline?|url=https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/n/newline.htm|access-date=2021-05-10|website=www.computerhope.com|language=en}}</ref>