Introduction to PowerBuilder

Special Characters

Use special characters such as tab or new line in a string by prefixing them with the tilde character (~). The following table lists the special characters:

To denote these special characters...	...use these character combinations
Newline	~n
Tab	~t
Vertical tab	~v
Carriage return	~r
Formfeed	~f
Backspace	~b
Tilde	~~
Decimal number	~nnn
Octal number	~oxxx
Hexadecimal number	~hyy

The following example demonstrates the use of a new line character.

MessageBox( "New Line Demo", "Line One" + & "~n" + "Line Two")

MessageBox() is a global function. It takes at least two arguments. One argument is for the title and another is for the message itself. If a new line character is not given in the message, it is displayed on one line. If the above code is executed, PowerBuilder displays the following message box.

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