What identifier should I use for TAB (e.g. for output to text files)?
There are many choices:
- vbTab
- ControlChars.Tab
- A constant (or public member) in my application set to Chr(9)
What is best practice? And why?
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Peter Mortensen
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Chr(13) is vbCr, not vbTab... vbTab would be Chr(9) – Thomas Levesque Sep 11 '09 at 12:04
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@Thomas Levesque: corrected now. – Peter Mortensen Sep 11 '09 at 12:05
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Related: *[End-of-line identifier in VB.NET?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1399268)* (for newline) – Peter Mortensen Feb 22 '19 at 10:29
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Thumb up for ControlChars.Tab! vb* constants are there for backward compatibility, avoid them.
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5Just because they’re there for backwards compatibility is no reason to avoid them. A better reason is that there are other alternatives that fit better with the style of the .NET framework, and that `vbTab` is of type `String` instead of type `Char`. – Konrad Rudolph Mar 19 '10 at 07:54