JCL Help:TJclTabSet.Expand@string@SizeInt
JCL Help: TJclTabSet.Expand Method (string, SizeInt)
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Summary
Expands tabs to spaces in the provided string.
Pascal
public function Expand(const S: string; Column: SizeInt): string; overload;
Parameters
| Parameters | Description |
| const S: string | The string to expand tabs in. |
| Column: SizeInt | The starting column to use when expanding the tabs. |
Return Value
If S contains tab character, they will have been converted to 1 or more space characters, depending on the column the tab character is in. Otherwise, the string is unmodified.
Description
Expand expands tab characters in the provided string into sequences of spaces while preserving the formatting. Expand will assume the string starts at the provided column.
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, with all but the first line starting at column 0 (zero-based set to True) or 1 (zero-based set to False).
The reverse operation (collapse sequences of spaces into tab characters) can be achieved by the Optimize method.
Examples
See the TJclTabSet help for an example.
See Also
TJclTabSet TJclTabSet.Expand@string TJclTabSet.TabFrom
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Marcel Bestebroer
Notes
This method is nil-safe; when invoked on a nil-reference, this method will assume a tab width of two on a zero-based tab set.
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