So you can think of a new line as being rolling the paper up so you're on a new line but a carriage return moves the cursor or moves that writing head all the way back to the left.

你们可以把换行想象成翻纸,把回车当做是将光标,移动到最左边。

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You can certainly hit Enter but as we saw-- seen that very quickly makes a mess of your code and such and so backslash N is new line.

你也可以敲回车键-,但是会让你的代码看起来乱七八糟,反斜杠n就是换行符。

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