Usually with just two, maybe three characters, a character that you can't really see as well on the screen, otherwise, so a new line character.

通常需要两到三个字符，这些字符你们在屏幕上是,看不到的，这个是换行字符。

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> So it's a new line character.

>没错，就是换行符。

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So you have what are called escape characters like backslash N that is the shorthand notation of telling the computer put a new line character here.

幸亏我们有一些类似反斜杠n的转义字符,这只是一种简化方式,用来告知电脑要在这新添一行。

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