For each item

[Phil Davis]

Hershel Fisch wrote:
> On 8/11/05 6:12 PM, "Alex Tweedly" <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hershel Fisch wrote:
>>
> 
> That's exactly my question, why at the letter "a" you combine it with the
> first tab and an the last "c" is not combined with the previous tab,and
> In-between every tab is an item?

It might be easier to see the items if you insert "empty" wherever an 
empty item occurs. Like this:

   put "a" & tab \
       & empty & tab \
       & empty & tab \
       & empty & tab \
       & "b" & tab \
       & empty & tab \
       & "c" \
       into tV

HTH

Phil Davis



> Now if you say that every second tab is a delimiter and every first tab is
> an item I understand and again it shouldn't be 7 ?
> Thanks, Hershel
> 
>>I count it to be 7.
>>
>>put "a" & tab & tab & tab & tab & "b" & tab  & tab & "c"  into tV
>>     11111111   222   333   444   555555555    666   777
>>
>>
>>(Hope this comes through as fixed-width font :-)