escape \t

escape \t

• JojoShow

  great! thanks
  
  

• Wollmatt

  I too do not think I would use an environmental variable - we are settings a Tab stop.

  It just goes to show you that all of us use different methodology to achive the same results.

  I thought of a different way to accomplish what you were attempting to do; Make your own control

  make the control look for the \t in the text and when it reaches it add x amount of spaces. Where x is set by you when you call the control. If you have never made a control this would be a great learning project...

  
  
  

• Pseudocode

  Try this;

  string a;

  a = @"hi\teveryone";

  By adding the @ symbol, you are telling the compiler to read the string literally instead of symbolically...

  
  
  

• Avi Raju

  what I'd like to see is
  hi everyone
  
  I'd like string being read symbolically. I'd like to see whitespaces instead of \t
  \t works well on forms but not in labels
  
  

• Bill New

  I was doing that in forms.
  with:
  

  CharConverter b = new CharConverter();

  label1.Text = "hi" + b.ConvertFrom("\t").ToString() + "Everyone";
  

  the result is: hiEveryone with no spaces in it.
  

  using the method
  private void whitespace
  is a good solution, but I don't understand why \t works well in MessageBox but doesn't in Label
  

  
  
  

• SamSmithnz

  set the textbox property Multiline to true and then try.

  
  
  

• Tito Jermaine

  It appears like it is a limitation of the label control. If you switch the property "UseCompatibleTextRendering" to true then the character disappears but it does not display any whitespaces.

   

  Perhaps you can use a text box.

  Set MultiLine to true if you need to.

  Set border to none

  Set BackColor to Control.

  Nobody will be any the wiser

  
  

• Peter Villadsen

  Huh

  This is just a long winded way of doing:

  str = "Hello" + " " + ".NET";

  or even simpler

  str = "Hello .NET";

  You definitely should NOT use an environment variable to define a tab replacement. What's wrong with a const string

  private const string _tab = " ";

  str = "Hello" + _tab + ".NET";

  
  

• DSouto

  thanks anyway!
  
  

• abhi243

  Hello, You can Use Environment to set the Environment variable for tab. Then Using the GetEnvironmentVariable, u can emulate tabs in Labels

  C#:

  Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("tab"," ");

  str = "Hello " + Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("tab") + ".NET";

  label1.Text = str;

  
  
  

• Ponnaravi

  >> but I don't understand why \t works well in MessageBox but doesn't in Label

  Mainly because Tab doesn't mean "add some whitespace". It means "Move to the column of the next predefined tabstop". Labels do not have predefined tabstops, hence there no place to go.

  
  
  

• DarrelCusey

  I tried changing some of the control's attributes just to see what would happen...

  Nada!! My best guess is the messagebox isn't a control. Thus it doesn't have an attribute that is causing the problem..

  Good Luck!

  
  
  

• bradgessler

  Are you doing this in forms or asp.net

  you can also do this;

  CharConverter b = new CharConverter();

  label1.Text = "hi" + b.ConvertFrom("\t").ToString() + "Everyone";

  The problem that I saw was in Windows forms, it add a box character in the label.

  HTML, the tab character is   - you would have to add the number of them you want, easily done with a loop. You can also add a loop in forms.

  The problem that I see is there is no way to establish the number of white spaces you want simply by using the \t sequence

  Maybe try this

  protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

  {

  Label1.Text = "hi";
  whitespace(3);
  Label1.Text += "everyone";

  }

  private void whitespace(int length)

  {

  for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)

  {

  Label1.Text += @"&nbsp;"; // Use for Asp
  Label1.Text += " "; // Use for forms

  }

  }

  
  
  

• susanowo

  Please don't use b.ConvertFrom("\t").ToString(). It's the same as just "\t".

  
  
  
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