◄Up► ◄Contents► ◄Index► ◄Back► ─────Programmer's WorkBench───────────────────────────────────────────────── Entab (Numeric) The Entab switch controls how PWB converts white space on modified lines. PWB converts white space only on the lines that you modify. When the Realtabs switch is set to Yes, tab characters are not converted and PWB uses only sequences of space characters. When Realtabs is set to No, tab characters are included in the white space to be converted. See: Realtabs The Entab switch can have the following values: Value Meaning 0 Convert all white space to space (ASCII 32) characters. With this setting and Realtabs set to No, PWB removes tab characters on all lines that you modify. 1 Convert white space outside quoted strings to tabs. A quoted string is any span of characters enclosed by a pair of single quotation marks or a pair of double quotation marks. PWB does not recognize escape sequences because they are language-specific. For well-behaved conversions with this setting, make sure that you use a numeric escape sequence to encode quotation marks in strings or character literals. 2 Convert white space to tabs. With settings 1 and 2, if the white space being considered for conversion to a tab character occupies an entire tab field or ends at the boundary of a tab field, it is converted to a tab (ASCII 9) character. The width of a tab field is specified by the Filetab switch. See: Filetab In all conversions, PWB maintains the alignment of text as it is displayed on screen. See: ◄How Tabs are Displayed► Default Entab:1 See Filetab, Realtabs See Tabalign ◄ASCII Table► ◄Entering Tab Characters► ◄How Tabs are Displayed► -♦-