Question

Currently I’m putting newlines in strings through one of these two methods:

<cfset someStr="This is line 1" & Chr(10) & "This is line 2" & Chr(10) & "This is line 3" />

OR

<cfset NL=Chr(10) />
<cfset someStr="This is line 1#NL#This is line 2#NL#This is line 3" />

Is there anything more like the Java/C++ way? Something more like this I mean:

<cfset someStr="This is line 1\nThis is line 2\nThis is line 3" />

Answer 1

Your way is correct. There is no support for \n or \r in CF. From the Live Docs

• Chr(10) returns a linefeed character
• Chr(13) returns a carriage return character
• The two-character string Chr(13) & Chr(10) returns a Windows newline