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Environment Class
 NewLine Property
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Environment..::.NewLine Property

Gets the newline string defined for this environment.

Namespace:  System
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Visual Basic
Public Shared ReadOnly Property NewLine As String
C#
public static string NewLine { get; }
Visual C++
public:
static property String^ NewLine {
    String^ get ();
}
F#
static member NewLine : string

Property Value

Type: System..::.String
A string containing "\r\n" for non-Unix platforms, or a string containing "\n" for Unix platforms.

The property value of NewLine is a constant customized specifically for the current platform and implementation of the .NET Framework. For more information about the escape characters in the property value, see Character Escapes.

The functionality provided by NewLine is often what is meant by the terms newline, line feed, line break, carriage return, CRLF, and end of line.

NewLine can be used in conjunction with language-specific newline support such as the escape characters '\r' and '\n' in Microsoft C# and C/C++, or vbCrLf in Microsoft Visual Basic.

NewLine is automatically appended to text processed by the Console..::.WriteLine and StringBuilder..::.AppendLine methods.

The following example displays three lines separated by newlines.

Visual Basic
' Sample for the Environment.NewLine property
Imports System

Class Sample
   Public Shared Sub Main()
      Console.WriteLine()
      Console.WriteLine("NewLine: {0}  first line{0}  second line{0}  third line", _
                             Environment.NewLine)
   End Sub 'Main
End Class 'Sample
'
'This example produces the following results:
'
'NewLine:
'  first line
'  second line
'  third line
'
C#
// Sample for the Environment.NewLine property
using System;

class Sample 
{
    public static void Main() 
    {
    Console.WriteLine();
    Console.WriteLine("NewLine: {0}  first line{0}  second line{0}  third line",
                          Environment.NewLine);
    }
}
/*
This example produces the following results:

NewLine:
  first line
  second line
  third line
*/
Visual C++
// Sample for the Environment::NewLine property
using namespace System;
int main()
{
   Console::WriteLine();
   Console::WriteLine( "NewLine: {0}  first line {0}  second line {0}  third line", Environment::NewLine );
}

/*
This example produces the following results:

NewLine:
first line
second line
third line
*/

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Portable Class Library

Supported in: Portable Class Library

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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