\n is new line what's \r?

Answer 1

I think \r is carriage returns. meaning the cursor is placed at the beginning of a line.

Answer 2

\r is carriage return. Windows uses the combination of "\r\n" to denote a newline. all other OS's use just \n. It's annoying. this is why you have to convert line endings when copying files from Windows to Linux and vice versa.

Answer 3

It is also a new line symbol in window i.e.\r==\n.

Answer 4

it means Carriage return.

Answer 5

this would be a cool Jeopardy question!