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Veronica Littlefield
769 Pointswhy %n and not \n?
in the extra lessons on looping, Craig show on the Milk example this... console.printf(“%d bottles of milk on the wall… %n”, i );
my question is why %n and not\n?
2 Answers
andren
28,558 PointsThe reason is that different operating systems use different line break symbols, meaning that \n won't actually work on all platforms. %n will automatically use the correct line break for the system it is running on.
Veronica Littlefield
769 Pointsyou explained it perfectly. Thanks!!