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newline

Availability

Flash Player 4.

Usage

newline

Parameters

None.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Constant; inserts a carriage return character (\n) that generates a blank line in text output

generated by your code. Use

newline to make space for information that is retrieved by a

function or statement in your code.

Example

The following example shows how newline writes output from the trace() statement on

multiple lines.

var myName:String = "Lisa", myAge:Number = 30;

trace(myName+myAge);

trace("-----");

trace(myName+newline+myAge);

/* output:

Lisa30

-----

Lisa

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