End Of Line

character (EOL) Synonym for newline, derived perhaps from

the original CDC6600 Pascal. The abbreviation "EOL" is

now rare, but widely recognised and occasionally used for

brevity. Used in the example entry under BNF.

Out of context this would probably be (deliberately) ambiguous

because different systems used different (combinations of)

characters to mark the end of a line. Unix uses a linefeed; DOS uses carriage return, line feed (CRLF) and the

Macintosh uses carriage return.

See also EOF.

(2002-03-22)