End-of-line

In computing, EOL refers to the end-of-line character or signal. It is also known as newline.

In Unix systems, the EOL character is line feed (LF, ASCII 10). In older Macintosh systems (before [Mac OS X]) it is carriage return (CR, ASCII 13) and in MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows systems, as well as in a number of text-based Internet protocols (for example SMTP, NNTP and POP3) a combination of both (CRLF).

See also

• newline