Question

I’m using a RichTextBox control in a .NET Windows Form application. I allow users to press the TAB key within the textbox itself. However when I save the .Text value in the textbox it will show up like this:

"This[]is[a]tab[]test[]"

Where each time the user pressed TAB, it shows up as unrecognized characters in the .Text property.

What’s going on here?

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Answer 1

I ended up searching for all instances of a ‘TAB’ character being pressed and replacing it with a ‘\t’ and that worked:

Dim tabString = Convert.ToChar("    ") //This is the [] string
RichTextBox.Text = RichTextBox.Text.Replace(tabString, "     ")

Not the best solution, still do not understand why the RichTextBox isn’t picking up on the TAB key automatically but it works for now.