Saving a tab formatted field to a file and retaining its formatting

Brian Milby brian at milby7.com
Mon Apr 8 09:48:59 EDT 2019


I don’t think it is the tab character but rather the tab stops that are the problem.

Brian
On Apr 8, 2019, 9:26 AM -0400, dunbarxx via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am always missing something. Why is there an issue retaining tabs in a
> body of ordinary text?
>
> I have a table field with "A" & tab & "B" & tab & "C" in it. If I write that
> text into a file on my desktop and then load it back into the second line of
> that field:
>
> on mouseUp
> get fld 1
>
> open file "/users/craignewman/desktop/xxx" for text write
> write it to file "/users/craignewman/desktop/xxx"
> close file "/users/craignewman/desktop/xxx"
>
> open file "/users/craignewman/desktop/xxx" for read
> read from file "/users/craignewman/desktop/xxx" until EOF
> close file "/users/craignewman/desktop/xxx"
>
> put it into line 2 of fld 1
> end mouseUp
>
> The identical text is now in line 2, all tabs intact. No rtf stuff needed.
>
> I am always missing something.
>
> Craig Newman
>
>
>
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