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Escape sequences

Texts have to partially contain control or special characters which cannot be input with the available amount of characters:

Special characters and control characters within text are marked by a backslash in front (quote, escape sequence).

The following table contains all escape sequences which are recognized by the formula language:

Case Result Value (Formula) Comment
Apostrophe a'b ='a\'b'
Backslash a\b ='a\\b'
Line break

a

b

='a\nb'
Tabulator a b ='a\tb'
Carriage return ='a\rb' Command carriage return
Form feed ='a\fb' Command form feed