Adding line breaks in label

[lochuanjiang]

Hi all,

I have written a program and the label.text is retrieve from the
database.
However the length of the string could be very long and i would wish to
have line breaks in certain portion

I tried manipulating the text in the database with \r\n but this does
not work.

Are there anyways to do it and i would still be able to use label?

Appreciate any help

[Michael Bray]

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Hi all,

I have written a program and the label.text is retrieve from the
database.
However the length of the string could be very long and i would wish to
have line breaks in certain portion

I tried manipulating the text in the database with \r\n but this does
not work.

Are there anyways to do it and i would still be able to use label?

Actually, \r\n does work in a label, but the problem is that when your
program reads it from the database, it is reading the \ characters
literally, so it turns it into the equivalent of \\r\\n. Your best option
is probably to "pre-process the string" by replacing "\\r" with "\r" and
"\\n" with "\n" in the code after it reads it from the database.

-mdb

[ahjiang]

Michael Bray wrote:

Actually, \r\n does work in a label, but the problem is that when your
program reads it from the database, it is reading the \ characters
literally, so it turns it into the equivalent of \\r\\n. Your best option
is probably to "pre-process the string" by replacing "\\r" with "\r" and
"\\n" with "\n" in the code after it reads it from the database.

yup it works now

appreciate your help :)