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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Thumb up for ControlChars.Tab! vb* constants are there for backward compatibility, avoid them.
m.bagattini
2009-09-11 12:03:17
Just 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
2010-03-19 07:54:16