New lines are more than \r and \n - Gérald Barré (opens in new tab)

When we talk about new lines, most developers think about \r\n (Windows) and \n (Unix-like systems). That works most of the time, but it is not the full picture. Unicode and several regex engines recognize additional line break characters. If your application parses user input, logs, CSV-like content, or cross-platform data, this can matter more than you think. The line breaks you should know The most…