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From: alan@mtxinu.COM (Alan Tobey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Tabs Within Fields
Keywords: Not shown, but stored -- where?
Message-ID: <850@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 19:24:10 GMT
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Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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I know that tabs aren't visually represented within Hypercard fields -- but
Hypercard somehow maintains a record of where tab characters reside.
I'm trying to retrieve this information so I can kludgily pad out tabs
with spaces for an application which requires that.

For example, if you paste tabular data into a Hypercard field, the tabs
disappear -- even looking char by char at the chars or charToNum's of the
contents of the field shows nothing where the tab is embedded.  But if you
cut the field content and paste it into a word processor, the tabs 
reappear in their proper places.

So:  How do I find them hidden tab chars in the contents of a field?