Creating a list via Text String. Need Carriage Return/Line Feed/Enter

[Pantheon]

(notice the carriage returns are inside quotes)

It took me a while to find this solution. Thank you sir.

[Michael_Edmonds]

ok…so back to the original question. I also want to force a CR/LF into the middle of a Text String.

My use case is creating an email message that has a list of all my battery operated devices and their current battery levels…each on a single line instead of 1 long run on sentence. So I am looping thru a list of all my battery devices and wanting to add a new line for each device to the variable I am using for the email message.

Thanks.

[WCmore]

I also want to force a CR/LF into the middle of a Text String

In an Expression box, if the ‘Enter’ button is pressed (while inside quotes), a new line is created.

• SMS example above
• Email example here.

[Michael_Edmonds]

Finally found another thread and got it working.

Newline in string varaible

1) Give a description of the problem Attempt to use format to store a newline special character into a string variable, stores the \n as-is. Same for \r. 2) What is the expected behavior? That a newline special character is inserted into the string variable. 3) What is happening/not happening? The characters \n appear in the string variable Too many items like email addresses in piston, here’s the piece that’s acting as defined: [image] String paragraph contains: Camara 1 Battery Level …

[Michael_Edmonds]

lol…just figured it out…thanks’

[WCmore]

I tend to use the Expression box (over Value) 95% of the time…
(slightly different syntax, but way better IMO)

[Michael_Edmonds]

Yup…that is what I was using also. Was further complicated by a 45 minute delay from executing the piston to receiving the email. So I thought changes were not coming through.