Formfeed

So this thing has been buggin me for so long, what is formfeed??? or /f

Formfeed is also a character that demarcates the end, whose character is FF, then there is also LF etc etc

So the link answers that quite thoroughly =)

webopedia has this definition, and it is the gist...

Linefeed mean move down one line...

the definitions I like are here:

webopedia

The entire history of newline gets really messy, and here I thought /n is a relatively innocous character lol

This is an excerpt from the wikipedia link that I think summarises the difference between linefeed and carriage return:


"The line feed indicated that one line should feed out of the printer, and a carriage return indicated that the printer carriage should return to the beginning of the current line."


Remember to read the "History" portion, it would explain quite clearly the confusion between using LF or CR+LF to represent /n

It is rather long(the wikipedia article) but worth reading