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From: niko@du248-16.cc.iastate.edu (Schuessler Nikolaus E)
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Subject: Re: How to write a tab into a file?
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Date: 22 Sep 90 02:42:26 GMT
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In article <3556@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca> juana@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Juana Chang) writes:
>
>Hi.  This is probably (hopefully) a simple question.  How do you write a
>tab into a file.
>
>What I need to do is this:
>
>fprintf(File, "...\n", number0, number1, number2, number3);
>
>where the result in the file would be:
>
>number0[tab]number1[tab]number2[tab]number3[return]
>
>and what I need to know is what to put in the format statement of the
>fprintf.
>
>Thanks for any help !!!
>
>Juana 


Is '\t' the answer you want? There are others:


\b  backspace
\r  cairrage return
\f  form feed
\\  backslash
\ddd any character value specified in octal.





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