String Resource File Format

String resource files must use the .ini file extension and use the following format:

[category1]
tag1 = "string value 1"
tag2 = "string value 2"

[category2]
tag1 = "string value 1"
tag2 = "string value 2"

When you create new entries in a string resource file or create a string resource file for custom components, use unique category names to avoid conflicts with the default names TestStand uses. For example, begin new category names with a unique ID, such as a company prefix.

You can create an unlimited number of categories and tag names. You can create strings of unlimited size, but you must break a string with more than 512 characters into multiple lines. Each line includes a LineNNNN tag suffix, where NNNN is the line number with zero padding, as shown in the following example:

[category1]
tag1 Line0001 = "This is the first sentence of a long "
tag1 Line0002 = "paragraph. This is the second sentence."

You can use the escape codes in the following table to insert unprintable characters.