Is it possible to have line breaks in an ini file using Delphi?
I have a string value that I’d like to use, but it needs to have the ability for line breaks. I don’t need any other formatting of the text.
How can I do this?
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Is it possible to have line breaks in an ini file using Delphi?
I have a string value that I’d like to use, but it needs to have the ability for line breaks. I don’t need any other formatting of the text.
How can I do this?
It’s been a while since I did Delphi, but I think you can’t directly include linefeeds – a line is a line.
But as Örjan says, you can include characters in your string that can be interpreted by your program as line breaks.
I doubt that “\n” is automatically treated specially in any way in a .ini file, but you could include some other rarely used character, such as the pipe (|) or tilde (~) and just let your app translate that to a line break.