A CRLF is a telecom term for a carriage return line feed pair. This refers to the two characters that are used to signify the end of a line of text in most computer systems. The CR, or carriage return, moves the cursor back to the beginning of the current line without advancing it down to the next line. The LF, or line feed, character moves down one lines and is typically used after wrapping text. Together, these two characters form a CRLF pair which tells computer systems where one line ends and another begins.
While CRLFs are mostly invisible when viewing plain text files, they can cause problems if they are not properly formatted. For example, if there is only a CR character at the end of each line instead of both CR and LF characters then some systems may interpret this as two different lines instead of one long continuous string without any breaks between lines. This can lead to errors when trying to view or process data from such files since each system may handle these differently depending on their own interpretation rules for how CRLFs should be handled.
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