>>I know there a countless alternate ways of doing this but is there a way to display line breaks tucked inside a memory variable displayed in a window
>>I suspect it's one of those 'filetostr strtofile conversions' but i'm having trouble with the syntax
>>thanks for your help
>>

>>mes = 'I need the line break'+chr(13)+'To be displayed in this window'+chr(13)+'any suggestions??'
>>activate window temp
>>? mes  &&& all I get here is 'any suggestions'
>>

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>Don't use ? to output message. Use messagebox. Also, you may want to try chr(13) + chr(10) instead of just chr(13).

thanks Naomi - actually your chr(10) by itself works fine. Any reason why I shouldn't just use that?