a delete escape character?

does any 1 know of an escae character ican use to simulate a delete key? i tried \127 & \008 but cant get either to work, i need somethihg i can use like \r\n for return and newline but to actually delete that space. Is there a better way to do this? thanx

VB Code:

private void frmchild_KeyDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            if(e.KeyCode==Keys.Delete) MessageBox.Show("");
        }

This one? If not, sorry.

i need an escape character, that i can place inside a string to manipulate text programmatically. like if you put \r\n inside a label.Text will enter a return character. its a C thing. thanx though

Don't know if there's an escape character for delete but here's the list from Peter Burden's tutorial

VB Code:

Octal   Hex Escape  Input   Name
000 00      Ctrl-@  Null - does nothing
001 01      Ctrl-A  SOH
002 02      Ctrl-B  STX
003 03      Ctrl-C  ETX - Sometimes Break Program
004 04      Ctrl-D  EOT - Sometimes End of File
005 05      Ctrl-E  ENQ
006 06      Ctrl-F  ACK
007 07  \a  Ctrl-G  BEL - Audible Signal
010 08  \b  Ctrl-H  BS  - Backspace
011 09  \t  Ctrl-I  HT  - TAB
012 0a  \n  Ctrl-J  NL  - Newline
013 0b  \v  Ctrl-K  VT  - Vertical TAB
014 0c  \f  Ctrl-L  FF  - New Page or Clear Screen
015 0d  \r  Ctrl-M  CR  - Carriage Return
016 0e      Ctrl-N  SO
017 0f      Ctrl-O  SI
020 10      Ctrl-P  DLE
021 11      Ctrl-Q  DC1 - Flow Control - On
022 12      Ctrl-R  DC2
023 13      Ctrl-S  DC3 - Flow Control - Off
024 14      Ctrl-T  DC4
025 15      Ctrl-U  NAK - Sometimes Line Delete
026 16      Ctrl-V  SYN
027 17      Ctrl-W  ETB
030 18      Ctrl-X  CAN - Sometimes Line Delete
031 19      Ctrl-Y  EM
032 1a      Ctrl-Z  SUB - Sometimes End of File
033 1b      Ctrl-[  ESC - Often Escape for Screen Control
034 1c      Ctrl-\  FS
035 1d      Ctrl-]  GS
036 1e      Ctrl-^  RS
037 1f      Ctrl-_  US
040 20          SP  - Space - Hit the space bar

Yeah i tried backspace but word doesnt reconize it for what i need, so 127 and 177 were the ascii values that i tried earlier. would be nice for a \D but cant find it even tried simulating ^Del but nothing.

Can you be more specific about what you are trying to accomplish? There may be a better solution for what you are trying to do just by using some of the methods in the string class.

i am adding a digital signature to a document using the word object and a bookmark, but some of those docs have an underline where the signature needs placed. so i was trying to delete the length of the signature from the document then place in the signature.

Not sure if this helps, but you can use the Range object to delete text in Word (Set the range to the signature that you want to delete, and call the Delete method of the Range). There's an example here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...WordObject.asp