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From: kemnitz@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Kemnitz)
Subject: Re: embedding new lines in text strings?
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The scanner has no knowledge of type - it takes a string which is ultimately
passed to your input function.  You can pass a newline by using "\n" as in
printf, or by using a backslash to hide the newline character.

The following two strings 

"this is a text \
string"

and

"this is a text \nstring"

will be parsed as

"this is a text <newline>string"

	Greg Kemnitz
	kemnitz@postgres.berkeley.edu