[rogerkylin]

I am trying to enter a carriage return to a CFString, but can't get it to work.

For example, if I try to append a carriage return (from a C string) to a CFString by the following line:

CFStringAppend(textOut,CFSTR("\n"));

When I display the CFString to an output window, it shows the carriage return character, instead of actually starting a new line.

Any suggestions?

[Angus_D]

Depending where you're displaying it, you might need a \r instead of a \n

[rogerkylin]

The \r did it. Thanks.

By the way, what is \r? That is not listed in my elementary C book. Is it an 'advanced' C function or is it a carbon thing?

[Angus_D]

It's Mac OS-specific, I think. It's equivalent to the return key on Macs. \n is ASCII character 10, \r is ASCII character 13.

[TheBum]

"\r" is a carriage return. "\n" is a line feed, a.k.a. a newline character. In MS-DOS and Windows, both are used at the end of a line, i.e. "\r\n"; in UNIX variants, only "\n" is used; in Classic MacOS, only "\r" is used.