Re: Echo: How to include a \t.

[Nat Gross]

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From: Nat Gross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matt Benson wrote:
   

--- Nat Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
     

Hi;
How can I embed a \t within an echo string?
I tried to console and file, with and without
message attribute, to no 
avail.
       

I believe this is an XML thing.  You might find an XML
parser that would preserve a hard tab character in a
buildfile, but as I understand it the tab character is
not defined in XML so the behavior of (e.g. Xerces) is
to interpret it as a space.  That what appears to be
happening when I run:
<project>
<echo message="foo    bar" />
<!-- that was a tab between foo and bar
     but my HTML form-based e-mail won't let
     me do it ;) -->
</project>
Can you just use several spaces?  You could even do:
<property name="tab" value="    " />
and use ${tab} wherever you want...
     

Neat idea. Thanks.
-nat
   

-Matt
     

Thanks,
-nat
       

Alternately, if you really want a tab character, I think you should be able 
to use the XML character entity for tab:
<property name="tab" value="&#x0009;">
Kajsa Anderson
 

I had tried \u0009, but it didn't work. I didn't know about the need to 
prefix &# to the tab code.
This methodology's benefit is that I can use the same for other 
codes/chars as well.
Thanks
-nat

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