<character, jargon> /n[y]oo'li:n/ {Line feed} or other
	character sequence used to terminate a line of text.

	{Unix} uses {line feed} as its text line terminator - a
	{Bell-Labs}-ism rather than a {Berkeley}ism.  Interestingly
	(and unusually for Unix jargon), it is said to have originally
	been an {IBM} usage.  Though the term "newline" appears in
	{ASCII} {standards}, it never caught on in the general
	computing world before {Unix}.  The encoding of line feed as
	"\n" in {C} and {Unix} strings comes from this name.

	The term has been used more generally for any {end of line}
	character, character sequence (e.g. {crlf}), or operation
	(like {Pascal}'s writeln procedure or {Lisp 1.5}'s {terpri})
	required to terminate a text record or separate lines.

	[{Jargon File}]

	(1997-07-14)

<programming> A sequence of {data} values, usually {bytes},
	which usually stand for {characters} (a "character string").
	The {mapping} between values and characters is determined by
	the {character set} which is itself specified implcitly or
	explicitly by the environment in which the string is being
	interpreted.

	The most common character set is {ASCII} but, since the late
	1990s, there has been increased interest in larger character
	sets such as {Unicode} where each character is represented by
	more than eight {bits}.

	Most programming languages consider strings (e.g.
	"124:shabooya:\n", "hello world") basically distinct from
	numbers which are typically stored in fixed-length {binary} or
	{floating-point} representation.

	A {bit string} is a sequence of {bits}.

	(1999-12-21)

The structure of strings in some language.  A language's
	syntax is described by a {grammar}.  For example, the syntax
	of a binary number could be expressed as

		binary_number = bit [ binary_number ]

		bit = "0" | "1"

	meaning that a binary number is a bit optionally followed by a
	binary number and a bit is a literal zero or one digit.

	The meaning of the language is given by its {semantics}.

	See also {abstract syntax}, {concrete syntax}.

	(1994-10-31)