return is chr$(13) so just do
a$=str$(number)+chr$(13)
be careful doing that though, you might mess up the way DB writes information to files, it must use it`s own delimiter to seperate text etc, it might be chr$(0), but then again it might be chr$(13), so adding in extra control codes might mess up the information, for example
123
456
789
might end up as
123
456
789
with a null string between entries, I should take it as read that DB seperates the characters and just add anything extra in as you seperate the entries.
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