Visual Basic does not support control or special or escape sequences like “\n” ( new line ) or “\t” which forces VB programmers to use constants like ControlChars.Crlf and ConrolChars.Tab. The biggest disadvantage of this is , it makes your code ugly or in technical language less readable. So this is the way we use it without escape characters

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Dim mystring as String = “Ashish Mohta ” & ControlChars.Crlf & “Phone” & ConrolChars.Tab & “Mynumber”

However there is a way to use the special characters which comes with little expense by using Regex.Unescape static method which takes a string that contains C# like escape sequences such as new line or tab.

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Dim mystring as String = Regex.Unescape(”Ashish Mohta\n Phone\tMynumber”)

I can bet that’s going to improve Vb programmers life a little bit more.