Character Escapes

There are places where characters or character sequences, which need to be replaced, cannot be entered with a keyboard or can’t be acted upon immediately. Escape codes are the means to notify eFORMz of the characters in a way that the information is stored. An example of this is the tab character (ASCII 9). This character will cause the cursor to move to the next field of the screen if entered from the keyboard. In the Composer, the sequence “\t” (without the quotes) can be used to make eFORMz aware of the intention to find or replace the tab character.

\b

Backspace

\t

Tab

\n

Linefeed

\r

Carriage return

\f

Formfeed

\\

Backward slash

\a<3 decimal digits>

Character represented by its decimal value (000-255)

\x<2 hexadecimal digits>

Character represented by its hexadecimal value (00 – ff)

The decimal and hexadecimal values are detailed in the ASCII chart. The majority do not need to be encoded using an escape sequence.