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Match newline character "\n" in lex

Hi everyone!

This is my very first post, sorry if I'm not posting in the right category.
I'm trying to match a newline "/n" using lex/yacc.
For example,

print(9,'\n',8)
should print
9
8

now do I write a regular expression to match exactly " '\n' "
Thanks!

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