Hi All,

For some reason in VFP7 SP1, the tab character (CHR(9)) is being converted to spaces when output using the SET ALTERNATE TO command. Actually I have noticed that it's tabbing to a specific column (like in Word).

How do I force VFP to just output the tab character?

Here's my code:

SET ALTERNATE TO ("log.txt")
SET ALTERNATE ON
?"XXX" + CHR(9) + "YYY"
?"A" + CHR(9) + "B"
SET ALTERNATE OFF
SET ALTERNATE TO

This generates the following output

XXX     YYY  
A       B

I have made sure that the "Keep Tabs" option is selected in the Options | IDE tab for text files.

TIA.

Jim Underwood

Best Regards,

Jim Underwood
Apollo Information Systems, Inc.
Houston, TX