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    Tab2Space

    Convert tab characters to a number of spaces.

    Declaration

    Source position: strutils.pp line 195

    function Tab2Space(const S: string; Numb: Byte) : string;

    Arguments

    Name Description
    S String in which to replace tab characters.
    Numb Number of spaces to replace tab characters with.

    Function result

    String with tab characters replaced.

    Description

    Tab2Space returns a copy of S with all tab characters (ASCII character 9) converted to Numb spaces.

    Errors

    None.

    See also

    Name Description
    StuffString Replace part of a string with another string.
    FindPart Search for a substring in a string, using wildcards.
    ExtractWord Extract the N-th word out of a string.
    DelChars Delete all occurrences of a given character from a string.
    DelSpace Delete all occurrences of a space from a string.
    DelSpace1 Reduces sequences of space characters to 1 space character.
    DupeString Creates and concatenates N copies of a string.