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simsee

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Strange behavior of tab character
« on: November 30, 2025, 05:27:09 pm »
Why does writeln sometimes display the tab character (ascii #9) in a string with a little circle, instead of performing a character gap?
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marcov

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Re: Strange behavior of tab character
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2025, 05:30:28 pm »
Probably you output it with stdout in RAW mode.
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simsee

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Re: Strange behavior of tab character
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2025, 05:33:09 pm »
This happens in one of my apps, but not in others. What setting affects this behavior?
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jamie

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Re: Strange behavior of tab character
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2025, 05:49:07 pm »
canvas.Textout Does not support a TAB, you must emulate it,

WriteStr, Write and WriteLn should work, however.

If those are not working then yes, something is amidst !


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Re: Strange behavior of tab character
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2025, 05:55:22 pm »
Quote from: simsee on November 30, 2025, 05:33:09 pm
This happens in one of my apps, but not in others. What setting affects this behavior?

You don't give much information, but units like CRT or VIDEO (used anywhere in the program!) might have such effect.
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Re: Strange behavior of tab character
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2025, 06:58:55 pm »
For some reason, I had unnecessarily included Crt in the uses clause of the unit where writeln was exhibiting this strange behavior with tab. I'm under Windows. Removing the inclusion solved the problem. Thanks Marcov!
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