JCL Help:StrOptimizeTabs@string

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Summary

Collapses a string to the optimal tab and space character sequences.


Pascal

 function StrOptimizeTabs(S: string): string;


Parameters

Parameters Description
S: string The string to collapse tabs and spaces in.


Return Value

Any tab and/or space character sequences in S will have been reduced to their shortest form; no other item in the string is modified.


Description

StrOptimizeTabs reduces tab and space character sequences in the provided string into an optimized (shortest) sequences of tab and space characters while preserving the formatting. A tab width of 2 is assumed.
Multi-line strings, ie. strings containing one or more newline sequences (eg. CrLf, but also single Cr of Lf characters are treated as newlines), are handled properly.
The reverse operation (expand sequences of tab characters into spaces) can be achieved by the StrExpandTabs method.


See Also

TJclTabSet StrOptimizeTabs@string@Integer StrOptimizeTabs@string@TJclTabSet


About

Unit

JclStrings


Donator

Marcel Bestebroer


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