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Complete · Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:14 am

Does anyone know how to write out special characters in Visual Basic? The special charcters are things like end-of-line. How would I put that in string data?

dragmor · Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:06 am

Use the Chr(nn) function

Chr(13) & Chr(10) is carriage return and line feed in windows.

thegleek · Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:33 am

yeah.. and if you need an ascii chart to reference, i archived these on my site:

http://www.thegleek.com/quickies/ascii.html

-and-

http://www.thegleek.com/quickies/asciiall.html

Complete · Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:37 pm

For readability purposes in the source code, is there some way to continue lines to a next line? In cpp you can just do this:

sprintf(buff,
"one line"
"another line"
):

Can you do the same sort of thing, continue a command to the next line, in Visual Basic?

Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:00 pm

Use the _ character.

    s = "This is line #1.  " + _
        "This is line #2."

UberGerbil · Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:20 pm

Note that if you're talking about VB/VBA proper (rather than VBScript) there are predefined constants for those common control characters:
vbCr
vbCrLf
vbLf

Msgbox "This is" & vbCrLf & "on two lines"

Craig P. · Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:25 pm

For the named constants, for anything that might double as a key name, make sure you check the documentation. It could also be a constant for one of the events (KeyPress, I think).

Line continuation is properly " _" (note the leading space).

UberGerbil · Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:05 pm

The key event constants all begin vbKey... eg vbKeyTab, as opposed to vbTab for chr(9)

You can see the lists of predefined constants in the object browser (hit F2 or find it on the menus) -- I think they're listed under "Constants" in the Classes list (I don't have pre-.Net VB installed on this machine, but looking at the VBA environment in Excel it looks like there's a separate set for KeyCodeConstants).

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