Java Scanner newline recognition

Question

I can\'t find the documentation that specifies how a Scanner treats newline patterns by default. I want to read a file line by line and have the scanner be able to handle \\

Answer 1

Looking at the source code for Sun JDK 1.6, the pattern used is "\r\n|[\n\r\u2028\u2029\u0085]"

which says "\r\n" or any one of \r, \n or the unicode characters for "line separator", "paragraph separator", and "next line" respectively.