the newline _character_?

[Nico Weling]

Hi Bengt,

the character is '\n'

This works fine:

Eshell V4.9.1  (abort with ^G)
1> $\n.
10

> moreover, is there is_whitespace() function is some module?

you can use:

   case YourCharacter is 
   	[32] -> bla bla bla;



Regards,

Nico.

 	
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:55:53 +0100 (MET)
> From: Bengt Kleberg <eleberg@REDACTED>
> Subject: the newline _character_?
> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
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> greetings,
> 
> characters in erlang are written as $<the-character>. ie ';' is $; .
> how do i write newline? not in a string, that would be "\n", but as a
> character?
> 
> moreover, is there is_whitespace() function is some module?
> 
> 
> bengt
> 

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