Serial Monitor not carriage returning

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Hello all.

Very new to this but I'm working through the project book that came with my starter kit and I'm currently working on project 5 with the servo motor. Everything seems to be functioning fine once I was done, my issue is with the serial monitor. It doesn't appear to be performing a carriage return after each loop. I've tried selecting all 4 options at the bottom (No line ending, Newline, Carriage return, Both NL & CR) and it still seems to just print continually in one line across.

Not really a huge deal but I just want to be sure its not something I've done or if there is a way to correct it.

Thanks in advance.

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Are you using Serial.print() rather than Serial.println() to print the data ?

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Give an example of the situation where you want a line feed.

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This refers only to sending something from serial monitor to the Arduino. Printing a 'new line' on receiving depends wether an new line has been sent by the Arduino. And that's the difference between
Serial.print( something ); //without new line
and
Serial.println(something); // with new line

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That's exactly what it was. Thank you. The last part of my serial.print I had forgotten the "ln" at the end. I even went through past projects knowing i had seen it before but i missed it obviously.

Thanks for the help and sorry for the inconvenience.

#include <Servo.h>
Servo myServo;
int const potPin = A0;
int potVal;
int angle;
void setup() {
  myServo.attach(9);
  Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop() {
  potVal = analogRead(potPin);
  Serial.print("potVal: ");
  Serial.print(potVal);
  angle = map(potVal, 0, 1023, 0, 179);
  Serial.print(", angle: ");
  **Serial.println(angle);**
  myServo.write(angle);
  delay(15);
}
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