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There is carriage return with the escape sequence \r with hexadecimal code value 0D abbreviated with CR and line-feed with the escape sequence \n with hexadecimal code value 0A abbreviated with LF. Text files on MS-DOS/Windows use CR+LF as newline. Text files on Unix/Linux/MAC (since OS X) use just LF as newline.

On Windows, line-endings are terminated with a combination of a carriage return (ASCII 0x0d or \r) and a newline(\n), also referred to as CR/LF. On the Mac Classic (Mac systems using any system prior to Mac OS X), line-endings are terminated with a single carriage return (\r or CR).

In Notepad++ go to the View > Show Symbol menu and select Show End of Line. Once you select View > Show Symbol > Show End of Line you can see the CR LF characters visually. You can then use the menu item Edit > EOL Conversion and select Unix (LF).

Open any text file and click on the pilcrow (¶) button. Notepad++ will show all of the characters with newline characters in either the CR and LF format. If it is a Windows EOL encoded file, the newline characters of CR LF will appear (\r\n). If the file is UNIX or Mac EOL encoded, then it will only show LF (\n).

Solution In Notepad++ go to the View > Show Symbol menu and select Show End of Line. Once you select View > Show Symbol > Show End of Line you can see the CR LF characters visually. In Microsoft Word, you can Save As Plain Text (*.

Windows programs normally use a carriage return followed by a line feed character at the end of each line of a text file. In ASCII, carriage return/line feed is X'0D'/X'0A'. In EBCDIC, carriage return/line feed is X'0D'/X'15'.

You can add the \n special character where you want the CRLF: "First Line. \nSecond Line."