Is there a way to use a tab character like a new line character inside the Environment class, instead of using "\t"?
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What are you missing out with "\t"?Oskar Kjellin– Oskar Kjellin2010-04-21 21:06:13 +00:00Commented Apr 21, 2010 at 21:06
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1@Oskar: That, I assume, is part of the question.SLaks– SLaks2010-04-21 21:07:13 +00:00Commented Apr 21, 2010 at 21:07
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@SLaks, true. Probably he could have written that, although it seems very clear now that you've pointed it outOskar Kjellin– Oskar Kjellin2010-04-22 07:36:56 +00:00Commented Apr 22, 2010 at 7:36
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1It's not in Environment but you could use (char)ConsoleKey.TabTod– Tod2012-02-01 23:12:57 +00:00Commented Feb 1, 2012 at 23:12
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No.
The only reason that Environment.NewLine exists at all is cross-platform issues, which the tab character doesn't have.
The newline character is \r on (pre-OS X) Mac, \n on Unix, and \r\n on Windows.
To allow .NET code to be portable across these platforms, the Environment.NewLine property was created, to return the newline character(s) used by the platform your code is running on.
The tab character is standard across all platforms, so there's no point in making a property to return it.
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D'Arcy Rittich
But it would be useful to have a property that returns how many spaces a tab equates to. In my Environment (within four feet of my desk), a tab equals four spaces ;)
SLaks
@OrbMan: That's an editor setting. It would be meaningless to have that as a framework property.
Anton
TAB character does not contain spaces. Count of equal space characters depends only on word processors settings.
D'Arcy Rittich
You're a humourless bunch.
D'Arcy Rittich
I do like the idea of having a personal Environment wherever I go. Any device within a few meters of me should use it for localization when I access said device. Consider this prior art.
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You can also use ControlChars.Tab.
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cjbarth
Found in the
Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace.
GoldBishop
Correct answer but not advised....not all implementations of the .Net Fx have the VB library available. Such as the Core implementation only includes the libraries from the System.* namespace.
If you really wanted to you, you could add a reference and use Microsoft.VisualBasic.Constants.vbTab. But the tab character is not something that changes based on your environment so System.Environment wouldn't have a property for you.
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GoldBishop
Correct answer but not advised....not all implementations of the .Net Fx have the VB library available. Such as the Core implementation only includes the libraries from the System.* namespace.
Are you looking for a pre-defined system constant for this (like Environment.NewLine)? There is no such thing as far as I know, but you could certainly create your own constant.
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Joan Venge
I assumed it was the same value for every platform but thought, sort of like since the tab character seems widely used, it might be "better" to have it as a constant property. I see code with "\t" all over all the time so thought it would be cool to have a default defined constant.
SLaks
@Joan: On the contrary.
"a\tb" is much nicer than "a" + Environment.HorizontalTab + "b".
Ray
I would suggest creating a constant named for its usage, rather than its content. Since a tab character is often used as a field separator, I would create a constant like 'const string Separator = "\t"'. Then if I need to change the separator to "|" or ",", no problem, since I didn't name it HorizontalTab or something content-specific.