Specifying a Tab as a char

Question

_{Friday, May 1, 2009 7:20 PM}

When I convert a .csv to a .txt file, there is continuous white space between each value on the same line. This is obviously a tab, and when copied into the find and replace appears as a small square. Is there anyway I can specify this as one of my separators when using the corresponding method from a TextWriter object?

Basically, how do I specify a tab as a char......please, of course.

All replies (9)

_{Friday, May 1, 2009 7:23 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

See
http://www.asciitable.com/

Convert.ToChar(9)John Grove - TFD Group, Senior Software Engineer, EI Division, http://www.tfdg.com

_{Friday, May 1, 2009 7:23 PM}

Excellent. Appreciate the riposte!!!

_{Friday, May 1, 2009 7:24 PM}

"\t" is a tab character. 

Escape Sequences

David Morton - http://blog.davemorton.net/

_{Friday, May 1, 2009 7:24 PM}

I need to specify it as a charcter to split() the values from a FileStream.

_{Friday, May 1, 2009 7:25 PM | 1 vote}

http://ascii.cl/

Tab = 9Mark the best replies as answers. "Fooling computers since 1971."

_{Friday, May 1, 2009 7:28 PM}

riposte, good word, haven't heard that in a whileJohn Grove - TFD Group, Senior Software Engineer, EI Division, http://www.tfdg.com

_{Friday, May 1, 2009 7:29 PM}

That's what you get for being nice and helping others.

_{Friday, July 13, 2012 5:24 PM}

While many answers here work, i found the easiest way to be

"\t"[0]

as in

string[] strings = incomingStr.Split("\t"[0]);

_{Thursday, August 2, 2012 7:49 PM}

While many answers here work, i found the easiest way to be

"\t"[0]

as in

string[] strings = incomingStr.Split("\t"[0]);

Note that you can define the char directly:

char c = '\t';

string[] strings = in.Split('\t');

There is no need to create a string then extract the first character from the string.

Reed Copsey, Jr. - http://reedcopsey.com
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