Newline

A character used to represent the end of a line of text and the beginning of a new line. In programming languages such as C, Java, and Perl the newline character is represented as a '\n' escape sequence. Below is an example of how the newline may be used in Perl.

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Print "Hello World!" and start a new line with \n
print "Hello World!\n";

#Locate and replace any newlines in the mydata variable
#and replace those newlines with a ** as the separator.
$mydata =~ s/\n/**/g;