Smalltalk, how to insert tab in a string

Question

How do you insert a "tab" in a string? I thought it was t enclosed in <> , but I do:

'Name <t> Age <t> Occupation'

prints exactly how it's typed. I would like to get

Name    Age     Occupation

instead of

Name <t> Age <t> Occupation

Answer 1

'Name ', String tab, ' Age ', String tab, ' Occupation'

If String does not understand #tab, you have to :

'Name ', Character tab asString, ' Age ', Character tab asString, ' Occupation'

Answer 2

As Damien noted, you can simply concatenate several calls to String tab to achieve what you wanted. The <t> trick you're trying, though, happens in Squeak-based Smalltalks if you call expandMacros on your string. E.g.,

'Here is<t>a tab and<n>a blank line' expandMacros

This mechanism is generic, and quite easily extensible; see String>>expandMacrosWithArguments: for more information.