Regular Expression to match cross platform newline characters

Question

My program can accept data that has newline characters of \\n, \\r\\n or \\r (eg Unix, PC or Mac styles)

What is the best way to construct a regular expression that

Answer 1

The pattern can be simplified to \r?\n for a little performance gain, as you probably don't have to deal with the old Mac style (OS 9 is unsupported since February 2002).