Environment::NewLine Property
Gets the newline string defined for this environment.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Property Value
Type: System::StringA 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.
// 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 */
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.