End Of Line

For other uses, see New Line (disambiguation). In computing, a newline (also known as a line break or end-of-line / EOL character) is a special character or sequence of characters signifying the end of a line of text. The name comes from the fact that the next character after the newline will appear on a new line — that is, on the next line below the text immediately preceding the newline. The actual codes representing a newline vary across hardware platforms and operating systems, which can be a problem when exchanging data between systems with different representations.
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<character> (EOL) Synonym for newline, derived perhaps from the original CDC6600 Pascal. The abbreviation "EOL" is now rare, but widely recognised and occasionally used for brevity. Used in the example entry under BNF.
Out of context this would probably be (deliberately) ambiguous because different systems used different (combinations of) characters to mark the end of a line. Unix uses a line feed; DOS uses carriage return, line feed (CRLF) and the Macintosh uses carriage return.
See also EOF.
(2002-03-22)