Difference between “\n” and Environment.NewLine

Question

What is the difference between two, if any (with respect to .Net)?

Answer 1

As others have mentioned, Environment.NewLine returns a platform-specific string for beginning a new line, which should be:

• "\r\n" (\u000D\u000A) for Windows
• "\n" (\u000A) for Unix
• "\r" (\u000D) for Mac (if such implementation existed)

Note that when writing to the console, Environment.NewLine is not strictly necessary. The console stream will translate "\n" to the appropriate new-line sequence, if necessary.