Concise way of outputting newlines in C#

Question

In C++, I can do this:

cout << "Line 1\nLine 2\n";

In Java, I can do this:

System.out.printf("Line 1%nLine 2%n");

In C#, do I really need to do one of these cumbersome things:

Console.WriteLine("Line 1");
Console.WriteLine("Line 2");

or

Console.Write("Line 1{0}Line 2{0}", Environment.NewLine);

or is there a more concise way, which is not platform-specific?

Answer 1

No, there is no concise, platform-agnostic, built-in newline placeholder in C#.

As a workaround, you could create an extension method for Environment.NewLine

public static class StringExtensions()
{
    public static string NL(this string item)
    {
        return item += Environment.NewLine;
    }
}

Now you can use NL (picked because of brevity)

Console.Write("Hello".NL());
Console.Write("World".NL());

writes out:

Hello
World

You could also make an extension method that simply writes out something to the console.

public static void cout(this string item)
{
    Console.WriteLine(item);
    //Or Console.Write(item + Environment.NewLine);

}

And then:

"Hello".cout();

Answer 2

This should work:

Console.Write("Line 1\r\nLine 2");