What is the difference between \r and \n?

Question

How are \\r and \\n different? I think it has something to do with Unix vs. Windows vs. Mac, but I\'m not sure exactly how they\'re different, and

Answer 1

• "\r" => Return

• "\n" => Newline or Linefeed (semantics)

• Unix based systems use just a "\n" to end a line of text.

• Dos uses "\r\n" to end a line of text.
• Some other machines used just a "\r". (Commodore, Apple II, Mac OS prior to OS X, etc..)