Is detecting tabs same as detecting the spaces? i.e. for detecting a space, I would just compare the space character with its ascii number.
For a tab do I have to search for ‘\t’ character in the file or there is some other way?
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Is detecting tabs same as detecting the spaces? i.e. for detecting a space, I would just compare the space character with its ascii number.
For a tab do I have to search for ‘\t’ character in the file or there is some other way?
Assuming you are working with ASCII data, you can just search for a byte with value ‘\t’ (9) in the text file. Tabs are represented as a single byte in text files and most libraries for reading files don’t do anything special with those bytes.