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How to create string constants that are control characters?

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Message       guykuo           Post subject: How to create string constants 
that are control characters?Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:25 am                    
    
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Posts: 172              Is there is a way to enter string constants that are 
not normally keyboardable into the IDE?

For instance, I often need to use chr(9) and like to refer to it as "tab".

I currently do this by having a global string called CR and assign it the value 
of chr(13) in an open event. That does the job, but is messier than declaring a 
string constant and assigning it chr(9) in the IDE. 

I have not found a way to enter string constant values into the IDE other than 
ones that can be TYPED into the default value editbox. You can't enter a 
carriage return, tab, linefeed or other control code. I'm suspecting I have 
missed some simple way to do this, but I don't see an escape char sequence or a 
hexadecimal method in the LR that would allow this. 

BTW, I do NOT care about encodings for this issue, I simply would like to know 
if the IDE can add string constants to a module or method that is the 
equivalent of creating strings like....

dim cr as string = chr(13)
dim tab as string = chr(9)   
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