Read a barcode(including line feeds) into text item

When I scan a bar code from a text item, I am unable to retrieve line feeds that are in a barcode. I need line feeds to retrieve various values encoded in the barcode. When I scan the same code on a notepad, I get output in multi-lines. But, oracle forms is removing the line feeds when I scan barcode in a text item. Please advice. Forms Version is 10g

It gave me output of 10.
Original string looks like this with control charactes <LF> and <CR>.
@<LF><CR>ansi 636049030002dl00410466zn05070057dldcabcde<LF>dcbbcdefjklmw
I have to get hold of <LF> character because it is used as delimiter for data values in barcode. But, when I scan it in oracle forms item, it is not reading <LF> character. Based on what you suggested, using dump and ascii, it ilooks like it is reading carriage return <CR> as CHR(10) and not <LF>. There is one more <LF> in the string and forms text item is not recognizing it. Dump output is shown below:
@,^J,A,N,S,I, ,6,3,6,0,4,9,0,3,0,0,0,2,D,L,0,0,4,1,0,4,6,6,Z,N,0,5,0,7,0,0,5,7,D,L,D,C,A,B,C,D,E,D,C,B,B,C,D,E,F,J,K,L,M,W,
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