tab in a file

ricky76

I am creating a file from Navision with just one line of data. However between a couple of the variables i export to the text filed i want to have a tab between them. Can anyone show me an example of how to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

kriki

global variable txtTab : Text10;

txtTab := 'x';
txtTab[1] := 9;



filTheFile.WRITE('Some text' + txtTab + 'and this comes after the TAB');

ricky76

Many thanks

ara3n

Is there a reason why you have the following line?

txtTab := 'x';

Waldo

Probably to have a [1]st char? Never used it this way either.

I always use char:

chrTab := 9;
filTheFile.WRITE('Some text' + FORMAT(chrTab) + 'and this comes after the TAB');

Some search results:
- http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3980
- http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4556

kriki

ara3n wrote:

Is there a reason why you have the following line?

txtTab := 'x';

I am not sure if Navision uses 0-terminated strings internally or another way.
So just to be sure I initialize the string.
I don't know if it is needed, but I do it anyway to be sure it will work fine.

ara3n

It works without it. Using a string instead of char makes the code smaller, you don't have to write format everywhere.

Waldo

ara3n wrote:

It works without it. Using a string instead of char makes the code smaller, you don't have to write format everywhere.

Where are the days we were looking at the number of lines ... now we're even looking at the number of characters... .

kriki

Waldo wrote:

ara3n wrote:

It works without it. Using a string instead of char makes the code smaller, you don't have to write format everywhere.

Where are the days we were looking at the number of lines ... now we're even looking at the number of characters... .

Well, there is a limit on how many characters we can cram into 1 line.