How to insert newline in string literal?

Question

In .NET I can provide both \\r or \\n string literals, but there is a way to insert something like \"new line\" special character like Enviro

Answer 1

Here, Environment.NewLine doesn't worked.

I put a "<br/>" in a string and worked.

Ex:

ltrYourLiteral.Text = "First line.<br/>Second Line.";

Answer 2

static class MyClass
{
   public const string NewLine="\n";
}

string x = "first line" + MyClass.NewLine + "second line"

Answer 3

string myText =
    @"<div class=""firstLine""></div>
      <div class=""secondLine""></div>
      <div class=""thirdLine""></div>";

that's not it:

string myText =
@"<div class=\"firstLine\"></div>
  <div class=\"secondLine\"></div>
  <div class=\"thirdLine\"></div>";

Answer 4

var sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append(first);
sb.AppendLine(); // which is equal to Append(Environment.NewLine);
sb.Append(second);
return sb.ToString();

Answer 5

Well, simple options are:

• string.Format:

  string x = string.Format("first line{0}second line", Environment.NewLine);
  

• String concatenation:

  string x = "first line" + Environment.NewLine + "second line";
  

• String interpolation (in C#6 and above):

  string x = $"first line{Environment.NewLine}second line";
  

You could also use \n everywhere, and replace:

string x = "first line\nsecond line\nthird line".Replace("\n",
                                                         Environment.NewLine);

Note that you can't make this a string constant, because the value of Environment.NewLine will only be available at execution time.

Answer 6

If you want a const string that contains Environment.NewLine in it you can do something like this:

const string stringWithNewLine =
@"first line
second line
third line";

EDIT

Since this is in a const string it is done in compile time therefore it is the compiler's interpretation of a newline. I can't seem to find a reference explaining this behavior but, I can prove it works as intended. I compiled this code on both Windows and Ubuntu (with Mono) then disassembled and these are the results:

As you can see, in Windows newlines are interpreted as \r\n and on Ubuntu as \n