"Line-Continuation" Character?

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Editing an AL source code, is there any special character that can tell the editor that the line continues to the next line?

Like "_" (underscore) in Visual Basic?

Please advise.

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Stefano Demiliani 37,166 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Just write the text on the new line. There's no a special chars to set.

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Thank you, Stefano.

I actually would like to press Enter where I would like to. (CR and LF are inserted)

This is to define a very long Label or to change a text variable with a very long value which do not fit into a screen on my PC monitor.

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Stefano Demiliani 37,166 Most Valuable Professional on at

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In code you can press enter and write on the next line. On a label declaration you cannot do that.

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YUN ZHU 95,748 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi, you just need to press enter.

You can find many examples in the standard code.

For example:

Hope this will help.

Thanks.

ZHU

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Thank you, Stefano, for your advice.

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Thank you, Zhu.

I learned that if it is like

VariableA

:= 'value to be inserted';

pressing Enter in the middle of the line works. But if it is like

VariableB

:= 'This value is too long to fit into

the screen of my PC';

pressing Enter in the middle of the line does not work and get an error.

I was trying to find a solution for the 2nd case.

How do you normally handle such cases?

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YUN ZHU 95,748 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi, try this (\).

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adams1124 237 on at

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Thank you again, Zhu.

I may not have explained well enough what I was trying to do. It is not for BC users but it is only for myself when coding with VS Code.
Typical example is when I need to define a variable type Label and the value of the label is very very long.

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MessageMsg: Label 'This is used for a message when the user tries to do xxxxxxxxxx, but the sequence of the operation is not correct. The user actually need to run yyyyyyyyyy first and then move on with zzzzzzzzzz .......... and so on ';

*****

In VS Code editor screen, the value does not continue automatically to the next line like above and I need to scroll horizontally to right and left to see the whole message. So I was wondering if I could do like

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MessageMsg: Label 'This is used for a message when the user tries to do xxxxxxxxxx, but the sequence of the operation is not correct.

The user actually need to run yyyyyyyyyy first and then move on with zzzzzzzzzz .......... and so on ';

*****

I know with Visual Basic (the old language), I can do using '_' like

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MessageMsg: Label 'This is used for a message when the user tries to do xxxxxxxxxx, but the sequence of the operation is not correct. _

The user actually need to run yyyyyyyyyy first and then move on with zzzzzzzzzz .......... and so on ';

*****

and wondered if I could do a similar thing with AL.

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YUN ZHU 95,748 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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I'm sorry I didn't fully understand before.

As far as I know, AL cannot use '_' to change lines like VB.

If you do so, an error will be prompted. I believe you have tried.

This may not look friendly, but it is also written on one line in the BC standard code.

I'm sorry I can't solve your problem, but hope this will help.

Thanks.
ZHU

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adams1124 237 on at

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Thank you, Zhu, for the clarification.

I will then live with scrolling right and left :)

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