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TabExpand()

Replaces a tab with a specified number of another character.

Syntax

TabExpand( <cString>   , ;
          [<nTabWidth>], ;
          [<xFillChar>]  ) --> cResultString

Arguments

<cString>

This is a character string to expand Tab characters in (Chr(9)).

<nTabWidth>

This parameter defaults to 8 so that Tabs are replaced by a character string of eight <xFillChar>.

<xFillChar> [ Chr(32) ]

Either a single character or its numeric ASCII code can be specified as replacement for Tab characters. The default is a space character (chr(32)).

Return

The function replaces each Tab character found in <cString> with a string consisting of <nTabWith> times <xFillChar> and returns the modified string.

Info

See also:	TabPack()
Category:	CT:String manipulation , Character functions
Source:	ct\tab.c
LIB:	xhb.lib
DLL:	xhbdll.dll