diff --git a/JSONTokener.java b/JSONTokener.java
index d0b197d73..fac73e9d4 100644
--- a/JSONTokener.java
+++ b/JSONTokener.java
@@ -264,8 +264,6 @@ public String nextString(char quote) throws JSONException {
             c = this.next();
             switch (c) {
             case 0:
-            case '\n':
-            case '\r':
                 throw this.syntaxError("Unterminated string");
             case '\\':
                 c = this.next();
@@ -324,7 +322,7 @@ public String nextTo(char delimiter) throws JSONException {
         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
         for (;;) {
             char c = this.next();
-            if (c == delimiter || c == 0 || c == '\n' || c == '\r') {
+            if (c == delimiter || c == 0) {
                 if (c != 0) {
                     this.back();
                 }
@@ -348,8 +346,7 @@ public String nextTo(String delimiters) throws JSONException {
         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
         for (;;) {
             c = this.next();
-            if (delimiters.indexOf(c) >= 0 || c == 0 ||
-                    c == '\n' || c == '\r') {
+            if (delimiters.indexOf(c) >= 0 || c == 0) {
                 if (c != 0) {
                     this.back();
                 }