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<h2><span class="header-section-number">24.9</span> White Space</h2>
<p>Stan allows spaces between elements of a program. The white space
characters allowed in Stan programs include the space (ASCII
<code>0x20</code>), line feed (ASCII <code>0x0A</code>), carriage return
(<code>0x0D</code>), and tab (<code>0x09</