(parse x {\n}) vs (parse x "\n")

[kanen]

The title says it all.

I have a file called "foo"

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foo
bar
baz
bif
doodle

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> (length (parse (read-file "foo") "\n"))
6
> (length (parse (read-file "foo") {\n}))
1

What am I missing in this behavior?

[Lutz]

Quoting with the curly brackets suppresses the backslash escape effect for special characters. See str in:

http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlis ... l#type_ids