Use this function to retrieve a string that contains a new line character sequence. This is useful when you are creating output text messages that contain line breaks.
| Note | On Windows, this function returns a carriage return/line feed pair. On UNIX, it returns a line feed. The function works in both Documaker Server and Documaker Desktop. |
There are no parameters for this function.
This example shows how you can use this function with the Print_It function:
Print_It("This is line one." & NL() & "This is line two.")
In this example, two lines are output to the command line during Documaker Server processing. Without this function, you would have to include two Print_It statements.
This is line one.
This is line two.
This example shows how you can create multiline text area messages:
data = ?("cus_name") & NL() & ?("state") & ", " & ?("zip")SetFld(data, "cus_ss")
In this example, two lines are stored in a multiline text area on separate lines. Without this function, you would have to define the multiline text area, a fixed-size font, and the script would have calculated the number of spaces to pad to the first line to make sure the line wrapped properly.
John A. Smith
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You can also use the NL function when you are creating comment strings you want inserted into a print stream using the AddComment procedure.
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