Building in carriage returns using Report Query

I am using Report Querys and Report Layouts. I am trying to build in some carriage returns that will be recognized in my rtf template. I tried using 'chr(10)', br's etc, but it doesn't work. It prints the characters instead of doing the carriage return. Am Imissing something?
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Bob,
The string literal 'chr(10)' will not help you much.
select 'mystring'||'chr(10)'||'mystring' from dual; -- returns 'mystringchr(10)mystring'
select 'mystring'|| chr(10) ||'mystring' from dual; -- returns 'mystring
mystring'Cheers,
Tyson Jouglet

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Bob,
The string literal 'chr(10)' will not help you much.
select 'mystring'||'chr(10)'||'mystring' from dual; -- returns 'mystringchr(10)mystring'
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good
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Your question about the CF Report Builder should be directed to its own forum, the CF Reporting forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/coldfusion/coldfusion_reporting
I do understand the easy confusion (the name CF Builder is awfully close to the CF Report Builder). Also, the forum name “CF Reporting” may not have jumped out as a place for RB questions. (For any readers who may be interested, the list of all CF-related forums is at http://forums.adobe.com/community/coldfusion)
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In your case, with the CFRB, it’s especially important to be aware of its substantial chapter:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24 -6fc2.html
For instance, you may already know about this but there you’ll learn that there is a QUERY attribute for the CFREPORT, whereby you can build the query dynamically (as any CFQUERY can be) and then pass that resultset to the report. That may suffice to solve the challenge for you, but if it does not, then you may want to at least take a moment to peruse that chapter before proceeding to ask the question in that other forum.
And if the book doesn’t help (and I grant it may not) them one more suggestion before you may re-post the question on the other forum: it really may be best for you not to make reference to MySQL or CF9 in your subject, as you did here. There’s doesn’t really seem anything about your challenge that’s specific to them, but saying it in your subject may limit who would read/reply (if they don’t use with MySQL or are not yet on CF9).
Hope something there’s helpful.
/charlie
PS If you may feel that this answers the question, please do mark it as such in the forum web interface, if you would please. Thanks.

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