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<div><h1>lines -- split a string into lines</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div><tt>lines s</tt> -- yields an array of strings obtained from the string <tt>s</tt> by breaking it at newline or return characters.<br/><tt>lines(nl,s)</tt> -- yields an array of strings obtained from the string <tt>s</tt> by breaking it at the newline characters specified by the string <tt>nl</tt>.<p/>
The form <tt>lines s</tt> is designed to break lines correctly when the file follows the Unix, MS-DOS, or Macintosh convention and contains no extraneous isolated newline or return characters. In other words, it will break a line at "\r\n", "\n", or "\r".<p/>
The string <tt>nl</tt> should be a string of length 1 or 2.</div>
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<div class="single"><h2>See also</h2>
<ul><li><span><a href="_newline.html" title="the new line character sequence">newline</a> -- the new line character sequence</span></li>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>Ways to use <tt>lines</tt> :</h2>
<ul><li>lines(String)</li>
<li>lines(String,String)</li>
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