Environment.NewLine Property

Definition

Gets the newline string defined for this environment.

public static string NewLine { get; }

Property Value

\r\n for non-Unix platforms, or \n for Unix platforms.

Examples

The following example displays two lines separated by a newline.

// Sample for the Environment.NewLine property
using System;

class Sample
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        Console.WriteLine();
        Console.WriteLine($"NewLine: {Environment.NewLine}  first line{Environment.NewLine}  second line");
    }
}

/*
This example produces the following results:

NewLine:
  first line
  second line
*/

Remarks

The property value of NewLine is a constant customized specifically for the current platform and implementation of the .NET Framework. For more information about the escape characters in the property value, see Character Escapes.

The functionality provided by NewLine is often what is meant by the terms newline, line feed, line break, carriage return, CRLF, and end of line.

NewLine can be used in conjunction with language-specific newline support such as the escape characters '\r' and '\n' in Microsoft C# and C/C++, or vbCrLf in Microsoft Visual Basic.

NewLine is automatically appended to text processed by the Console.WriteLine and StringBuilder.AppendLine methods.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Core 1.0, Core 1.1, Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1
UWP 10.0