Can you use escape characters (^t, ^r, ^n ...) with PRINTF?

[vefatica]

I tried the more obvious things. None worked. The second one below had a surprising result.

 

[Steve Pitts]

I may be missing the point Vince, but why not just use the \t, \r, \n in the printf format string?

 

[vefatica]

Ugh! Thanks @Steve Pitts. I didn't even think of that. I was 100% in command line mode. I probably should have read the first line of PRINTF'd help which contains "using the C printf format".

 

[rconn]

The escaped tab is there, but the PRINTF command skips whitespace (including tabs) when it's scanning for the next argument.