ASP Q&A: What Does Chr(10) Mean in a Web Page’s Code? | CodeGuru

ASP Q&A: What Does Chr(10) Mean in a Web Page’s Code?

This is the second in a series of tips being posted based on the most read posts in one of our ASP Forums. Problem / Question: What does Chr(10) mean when found in a web page’s code? Solution: CHR(10) is the same as vbLF. It’s the “newline” character. In Windows text files, each line ends […]

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This is the second in a series of tips being posted based on the most read posts in one of our ASP Forums.

Problem / Question:

What does Chr(10) mean when found in a web page’s code?

Solution:

CHR(10) is the same as vbLF. It’s the “newline” character. In Windows text files, each line ends with CHR(13) followed by CHR(10). Or vbCR followed by vbLF.

In other systems—notably Linux and UNIX—each line of a text file ends with *ONLY* CHR(10).

Based on posts by forum members PaulB and answer by Bill Wilkerson

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