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TabPack()

Inserts a Tab (Chr(9)) for multiple occurrances of a character.

Syntax

TabPack( <cString>   , ;
        [<nTabWidth>], ;
        [<xFillChar>]  ) --> cResult

Arguments

<cString>

This is the character string to process.

<nTabWidth>

This numeric parameter defaults to 8, the default width of a Tab character (chr(9)).

<xFillChar>

Either a single character or its numeric ASCII code can be specified to search for. The default is a space character (chr(32)).

Return

The function seraches multiple occurrances of <xFillChar> and replaces them with a Tab (Chr(9)) according to the specified tab width. The packed string is returned.

Info

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