Simple Question: Newline = Chr(13)???

[Mark Watkins]

I have a string and I want to insert a newline/return into the string. I
thought
Chr(13) would do it, but I guess not.

'is this what I should be doing?
myString = "something " & Chr(13) & " something else"

[Richard Mueller [MVP]]

Post by Mark Watkins
I have a string and I want to insert a newline/return into the string. I
thought
Chr(13) would do it, but I guess not.
'is this what I should be doing?
myString = "something " & Chr(13) & " something else"

Hi,

I use vbCrLf, one of the constants built into WSH. It is equivalent to
Chr(13) & Chr(10) (a carriage return and a line feed).

myString = "something" & vbCrLf & "something else"

[MikeB]

Post by Mark Watkins
I have a string and I want to insert a newline/return into the string. I
thought
Chr(13) would do it, but I guess not.
'is this what I should be doing?
myString = "something " & Chr(13) & " something else"

msgbox "something " & vbCrLf & " something else"
msgbox "something " & Chr(13) & Chr(10) & " something else"
msgbox "something " & Chr(13) & " something else"

'All three are the same

[Jens Lenge]

Post by MikeB
msgbox "something " & vbCrLf & " something else"
msgbox "something " & Chr(13) & Chr(10) & " something else"
msgbox "something " & Chr(13) & " something else"
'All three are the same

I tend to rather use the vbNewLine constant for that, because it is in
general system dependent if a newline is just a Chr(13) or a vbCrLf =
Chr(13)+Chr(10).

According to the VBS documentation, the vbNewLine constant is equivalent to
either just Chr(13) or Chr(13)+Chr(10), depending on what the target system
expects as a newline marker.

[Steve Fulton]

Post by MikeB

Post by Mark Watkins
I have a string and I want to insert a newline/return into the string. I
thought
Chr(13) would do it, but I guess not.
'is this what I should be doing?
myString = "something " & Chr(13) & " something else"

msgbox "something " & vbCrLf & " something else"
msgbox "something " & Chr(13) & Chr(10) & " something else"
msgbox "something " & Chr(13) & " something else"
'All three are the same

All three *appear* the same because of the way Windows handles bare carriage
return characters in dialogs. That all three are *not* the same can be
demonstrated by changing MsgBox to WScript.echo and using cscript.exe to run the
script in a command prompt window.