New line character in VB.Net?

Question

I am trying to print a message on a web page in vb.net. I am trying to get the messages in new lines. I tried using the "\r\n" and the new line character. But this is getting printed in the page instead of it comming to the next line. Please let me know if there is any alternative.

Answer 1

Check out Environment.NewLine. As for web pages, break lines with <br> or <p></p> tags.

Answer 2

Environment.NewLine is the most ".NET" way of getting the character, it will also emit a carriage return and line feed on Windows and just a carriage return in Unix if this is a concern for you.

However, you can also use the VB6 style vbCrLf or vbCr, giving a carriage return and line feed or just a carriage return respectively.

Answer 3

The proper way to do this in VB is to use on of the VB constants for newlines. The main three are

• vbCrLf = "\r\n"
• vbCr = "\r"
• vbLf = "\n"

VB by default doesn't allow for any character escape codes in strings which is different than languages like C# and C++ which do. One of the reasons for doing this is ease of use when dealing with file paths.

• C++ file path string: "c:\\foo\\bar.txt"
• VB file path string: "c:\foo\bar.txt"
• C# file path string: C++ way or @"c:\foo\bar.txt"

Answer 4

You need to use HTML on a web page to get line breaks. For example "<br/>" will give you a line break.