[Newbies] \n equivalent?

[C. David Shaffer]

Michael van der Gulik wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pdebruic at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi -
>
>     What Character or String is equal to \n in C or Python?  Thanks
>
>
>
> I remember wondering about this when I was first learning Smalltalk too.
>
> You do stuff like:
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> s := WriteStream on: (String new: 100).
> s nextPutAll: 'Hello World'. "Write a string"
> s nextPut: $!.             "Write a single character"
> s cr.             "Write a newline character"
>
> It's a bit wordy, but I think streams deserve a lot more credit than 
> programmers give them.
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> If you're doing String concatenation:
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> myString := 'Hello, World!', String cr.
>
> Alternatively, this is also valid code:
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> myString := 'This
> is
> a
> multi-line
> String!
> '.
>
Great summary.  I'll add:

'this\is\a\string' withCRs

which produces
this
is
a
string

If you look at the source code for withCRs you can probably see how easy 
it would be to write something more to your liking.

David


David