Re: Tab Charactor

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 10949
interpreted = N
texte = >We wrote a program that takes a database and makes it tab delimited for >import into Webcatalog. Unfortunately, the tab character is not working. Can >someone please tell me the correct ascii number for the tab character that >webcat needs. I thought it was asc(9), but that isn't working. Currently we >use the | symbol, then do a search and replace with Word. > >I appreciate the patience with such a trivial question. > >Thanks, Scott ShulmanHi Scott,I just had a look at a webcat database as ascii using QUED M (the Nisus version of BBedit) it showed the tab character as 09 vs 9.hope this helps...Matt Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Tab Charactor (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  2. Tab Charactor (Scott Shulman 1997)
  3. Re: Tab Charactor (msteele 1997)
>We wrote a program that takes a database and makes it tab delimited for >import into Webcatalog. Unfortunately, the tab character is not working. Can >someone please tell me the correct ascii number for the tab character that >webcat needs. I thought it was asc(9), but that isn't working. Currently we >use the | symbol, then do a search and replace with Word. > >I appreciate the patience with such a trivial question. > >Thanks, Scott ShulmanHi Scott,I just had a look at a webcat database as ascii using QUED M (the Nisus version of BBedit) it showed the tab character as 09 vs 9.hope this helps...Matt msteele

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