Thread: Curious about newline and carriage return

Hi, if I'm writing a Huffman code, I noticed that the text files online don't have a 1:1 relationship for total occurrances of new line with total occurrances of carriage return. I made a smalle text file and whenever I pressed the Enter key (I'm using Windows), I looked at the result and the newline appears the same number of times as the carriage return, which makes sense since a new line character cannot be produced without a carriage return character from pressing Enter key, so why do the web pages I created a huffman code with show the new line but no carriage return. So is it possible to create a new line character without using Enter to create a carriage return character?

Originally Posted by Norm

The two characters: "\n" and "\r" can either one or both be written to a file. Some editors will honor only one, some require both.

I'm using the same text editor, so basically I'm comparing the space saved via Huffman vs ASCII, and I output how many times each alphabet shows up (0 - 255) and I noticed some webpages I copy (I included the HTML/JavaScript too as part of the text to build the Huffman tree) show the newline character without any carriage return, while others include newline character but there are carriage return, but the times the carriage return shows up is much less than the newline character, that's why I was curious so I thought it was possible for those people who wrote the webpages to use some program to never use the carriage return or something like that...because as I said in the OP, I created a new text file using the same text editor, and whenver I pressed Enter key, and when I ran the Huffman program I wrote, the total occurrances of the new line character matches the total occurrances of the carriage return character, since you need to press Enter in order for a new line character to be generated so still unsure

Ok, thanks for clarifying and btw, what do you mean *too pages*, is this just a typo?