noun
newline character
Technical computing term for the character that marks a line break in text data.
改行文字は、テキストファイルで行の終わりを示す。
A newline character indicates the end of a line in a text file.
このプログラムは改行文字を認識して段落を分ける。
This program recognizes newline characters to separate paragraphs.
改行 refers to a line break in general, while 改行文字 specifically means the character that causes the line break.
Compound of 改行 (line break) and 文字 (character).