Inserting a line break in a literal string

Question

_{Wednesday, July 12, 2006 1:49 AM}

I am just getting started with VB and I am sort of used to QuickBasic, and I wanted to open a text file such as "C:/File.txt" and add to it.  I got the file open and all of its contents into a string, but I can't add line breaks to it.  The line breaks display fine in a MsgBox command but I can't insert the line break string (which looks like two vertical lines) into a literal string.  If I try to paste it into the VB Code window, it actually adds a line break just as if I had pressed Enter, and the symbols look different than the Shift + \ line ( | ).  The program looks sort of like this:

FileContents = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("C:\File.txt")
Now, a Sub for a button
NewData = TextBox1.Text
FileContents = FileContents + The Line Break Character + NewData

I need to add the NewData string to the end (bottom of .txt file) of the string FileContents, but I can't find a line break character or function.  Is there a function or special character that inserts a line break?  I have tried /n, \n, and the HTML <br> all with no success.

All replies (6)

_{Wednesday, July 12, 2006 1:55 AM ✅Answered}

Try:

Environment.NewLine

or:

\r\n

_{Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:49 AM ✅Answered | 3 votes}

I think what you're looking for is the constant VbCrLf which stands for Visual Basic Carriage Return Line Feed. Its equivalent to the  C language's \n. Hope that helps

Example

Dim s as String = "Hello this is one line of text" & vbCrLf & "And this is on another."

_{Wednesday, July 12, 2006 3:13 AM}

Thanks for the help, much appreciated

/r/n did not work but Environment.NewLine did

_{Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:06 AM}

/r/n is different than \r\n

;)

_{Wednesday, July 12, 2006 1:29 PM}

Hi,

Look at http://www.lookuptables.com/

for all the printable characters.

If you want some that you can't get easily on the keyboard

use CHR(number)

E.G.

mystring=Chr(124) & " the rest of my example string."

Additionally with the line>>

Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic.ControlChars

at the very top of your code window you can then use the keyword

NewLine as in>>

TestWord = InputBox("Please input the word to " & _

NewLine & "test as a palindrome")

Regards,

S_DS.

_{Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:05 PM}

I tried \r\n too, like & "\r\n" and like & \r\n but neither worked, but Environment.NewLine works and vbCrLf both work.  Thanks for the help.