string format question

[X.]

The help for Format Specifier Syntax doesn't say anything about special characters (tab, eol, etc)

Since the usual LV "codes display" mode does not seem to exist in LVWUIB, it's a game of trial and error to obtain the proper string.

Luckily you can create a string with a CR by simply pressing "Enter" while typing in a string constant. This does not work with TAB though...

Luckily too, it appears that  when scanning a string for numbers, spaces, tabs etc are simply ignored.

However, I want to generate a TAB formatted string so that I can copy and paste it into another program and process it from there.

How can I do this?

Thanks,

X.

[Smootastic]

Hi X-),

I tried to use a "\t" but it never worked.  I'll have to play with the string formatting to see if this is possible.  Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

[X.]

If I may suggest an improvement for the help (pretty concise at time: "check the Silverlight manual" or something of that kind): provide the same list of examples as provided for string syntax in LabVIEW.

[Smootastic]

Hi X-),

I've also double-checked the MSDN documents to make sure I've tried everything and am unable to get it to work.  It's almost like the \ code doesn't work.  I'll double-check the correct use of the custom format code.

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