Is there an alternate spelling of \n in javascript?

Question

Due to a bug in the Tumblr theme editor, any time the sequence \n appears in the source code, it is converted to an actual line break in the source code itself. Therefore, putting the \n sequence into a Javascript string causes the program to crash, as it breaks the string into multiple lines.

I was wondering if there is another way to notate the newline character in JavaScript, which could allow me to work around this issue.

Whichever

Sometimes with cases like this I try a double backslash like: \\n as a first workaround. I don't know if it will help or not in this case. – Bouton

Answer 1

Wow, that's an ugly bug.

Yes, you can use \u000a instead (or \u000A). It's the Unicode escape sequence for the same character. (Or worse case: String.fromCharCode(10).)

Gratuitous example:

console.log("\n" === "\u000a");                // true
console.log("\n" === "\u000A");                // true
console.log("\n" === String.fromCharCode(10)); // true

Walkling

looks like I had to use the String.fromCharCode(10). Very ugly, but it works perfectly. I will definitely leave an explanatory note to future developers. Thanks again :) – Whichever