Add docs on newline chars in Cypher (#892)

Co-authored-by: Richard Sill <[email protected]>
neo4j · Feb 29, 2024 · 727110d · 727110d
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diff --git a/modules/ROOT/pages/syntax/parsing.adoc b/modules/ROOT/pages/syntax/parsing.adoc
@@ -32,19 +32,19 @@ The following unicode characters are considered as whitespace:
 
 [options="header", cols="1,2"]
 |===
-| Description                       | List of included Unicode Characters
-| Unicode General Category Zp       | `\u2029`
-| Unicode General Category Zs       | `\u0020` (space), `\u1680`, `\u2000-200A`, `\u202F`, `\u205F`, `\u3000`
-| Unicode General Category class Zl | `\u2028`
-| Horizontal Tabulation             | `\t`, `\u0009`
-| Line Feed                         | `\n`, `\u000A`
-| Vertical Tabulation               | `\u000B`
-| Form Feed                         | `\f`, `\u000C`
-| Carriage Return                   | `\r`, `\u000D`
-| File Separator                    | `\u001C`
-| Group Separator                   | `\u001D`
-| Record Separator                  | `\u001E`
-| Unit Separator                    | `\u001F`
+| Description                       | List of included Unicode characters
+| Unicode general gategory Zp       | `\u2029`
+| Unicode general gategory Zs       | `\u0020` (space), `\u1680`, `\u2000-200A`, `\u202F`, `\u205F`, `\u3000`
+| Unicode general gategory class Zl | `\u2028`
+| Horizontal tabulation             | `\t`, `\u0009`
+| Line feed                         | `\n`, `\u000A`
+| Vertical tabulation               | `\u000B`
+| Form feed                         | `\f`, `\u000C`
+| Carriage return                   | `\r`, `\u000D`
+| File separator                    | `\u001C`
+| Group separator                   | `\u001D`
+| Record separator                  | `\u001E`
+| Unit separator                    | `\u001F`
 |===
 
 It is possible to have multiple whitespace characters in a row, and will have the same effect as using a single whitespace.
@@ -54,4 +54,18 @@ The following example query uses vertical tabulation (`\u000B`) as whitespace be
 [source, syntax]
 ----
 MATCH (m) RETURN\u000Bm;
-----
+----
+
+[[cypher-newlines]]
+== Supported newline characters
+
+A newline character identifies a new line in the query and is also considered whitespace.
+The supported newline characters in Cypher are:
+
+[options="header", cols="1,2"]
+|===
+| Description                       | List of included Unicode characters
+| Line feed                         | `\n`, `\u000A`
+| Carriage return                   | `\r`, `\u000D`
+| Carriage return + line feed       | `\r\n`, `\u000D\u000A`
+|===