New line character in Scala

Question

Is there a shorthand for a new line character in Scala? In Java (on Windows) I usually just use \"\\n\", but that doesn\'t seem to work in Scala - specifically

Answer 1

A platform-specific line separator is returned by

sys.props("line.separator")

This will give you either "\n" or "\r\n", depending on your platform. You can wrap that in a val as terse as you please, but of course you can't embed it in a string literal.

If you're reading text that's not following the rules for your platform, this obviously won't help.

References:

• scala.sys package scaladoc (for sys.props)
• java.lang.System.getProperties javadoc (for "line.separator")