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Old 07-16-04, 15:04
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inserting newline as data

I want to insert a newline character into a VARCHAR(254) type column along with other varchars for testing (from the Command Center). How do I do this?

The column has to contain, for instance, this:

abcd '\n'
wxyz

Thanks for any help.
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Old 07-16-04, 16:33
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insert into mytable (myfield) values ('abcd' || chr(13) || 'wxyz')
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Old 07-16-04, 17:30
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Thanks, ni!
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