Question

In a VS05 SSRS report I have a field coming back from the database that I concatenated together.

Ex:

SELECT Field1 + ' ' + Field2

I’m wanting to show this in a single textbox on the report but with a line break between the two fields.

I’ve tried:

Field1 + '\r\n' + Field2

but of course, no luck.

What special characters can I use to force a line break in my cell?

Answer 1

You can add line breaks in SQL by concatenating CHAR(10) + CHAR(13) to your values.
However I’d advise you to do formatting in the report rather than the database. In this case you would use the Visual Basic character vbCrLf in the texbox.