How can I specify special characters in a String Constant block?

How can I specify special characters such as CR (carriage return, "\r" or ASCII 13) and LF (line feed, "\n" or ASCII 10) in a String Constant block in Simulink?

"\" does not seem to work as an escape character with the String Constant block.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The String Constant block takes any MATLAB expression that represents a string. For special characters like line feed, users just follow what they do exactly in MATLAB.

Here are some examples:

• Using the "char" function which works for all special characters:\n

  "Hello" + char(13) + char(10)

• Using a MATLAB string:\n

  "Hello" + newline

• Using a traditional character vector:\n

  ['hello' newline]