<tabs> in the editor(s)
Alex Tweedly
alex at tweedly.net
Sun Jul 10 09:42:34 EDT 2005
Jon wrote:
> I guess I should have asked this obvious question a few weeks ago,
> when it was revealed that <tab> reformats text rather than inserting
> the <tab> character.
>
> How does one insert a <tab> character using the editor(s) [including
> Constellation, Jerry]? I want to create a table of values, and I
> think I need to use tabs to separate out the various values. Or maybe
> I'm on the wrong track entirely. Won't be the first time...
I usually do something like
local myVar = "1,2,3"
....
replace comma by TAB in myVar
....
though I have been known to do
> put "asd\twer" into a
> replace "\t" with TAB in a
Or use a different character instead (I often use "|", in any case where
I might want to deal with "normal text" which might contain tab
characters); obviously you can't do that if you need tab-formatting in
output to fields, but otherwise it's often a better choice.
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