Don't recall if it was that way in C++ - but it doesn't behave like that in C#. Don't see how it could work - how would it decide whether you wanted 3 tabs or one tab followed by'3' ?

>Works the same way in C#
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>>Hi All, many many moons ago I had to modify a C++ program and I'm sure ( fairly ! ) I remember seeing a way to insert multiple tabs / newlines in a string something along these lines
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>>string s = "Hello \t3";
>>cout >> s;
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>>this would print Hello followed by three tabs, does anyone recall seeing this ? and if so is it possible in c# ?