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The newline escape sequence \n can be placed in string literals if you want to break the output text over more than one line.
Do not use a line terminator even with a backslash to escape it. In other words, don't think that placing a backslash as the last character of a line will hide the line terminator. While that may work in other languages, it won't work in JavaScript.
| See also: | Escape sequence (\), Line terminator |
ECMA 262 edition 2 - section - 7.2
ECMA 262 edition 2 - section - 7.7.4
ECMA 262 edition 3 - section - 7.3
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