what does /n do?

[davis]

Im reading a book, and im just wondering, what does /n do? Does it just make the source coding look nice, or is there something else it does which I dont see?

Thanks

[aspdaddy]

Its a newline character in c++ IO stream :)

cout << "hello World\n"

[jatar_k]

it is a newline character \n

if you are outputting html it helps code formatting when you view source through the browser.

[andreasfriedrich]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com] davis.

IŽd suggest reading Marcia`s WebmasterWorld Welcome and Guide to the Basics [webmasterworld.com] post which contains a lot of useful information.

For PHP [php.net] see the table of escaped characters [php.net].

Andreas