Input with tabs from RichTextBox to string

[YarrOfDoom]

Hi I'm trying to get my input from a RichTextBox into a string, but the tabs in my input are left away. Is this a limitation of string, or am I doing something wrong? I'm trying to do this like this:

string = RichTextBox.text

Yarr Of Doom

[VBPhilly]

Hi I'm trying to get my input from a RichTextBox into a string, but the tabs in my input are left away. Is this a limitation of string, or am I doing something wrong? I'm trying to do this like this:

string = RichTextBox.text

Yarr Of Doom

Sounds like you want the tabs to remain in the string?

Is there an RTF property in VB6? I know there is one in VB.net.
This is what you should use when checking for tabs. I think the tab will be represented as a "/t" in the RTF value. Then you can simply find the location and insert it into the string returned from .text.

Give it a shot.

[Killer42]

I've just double-checked, and the .Text property does return tabs as expected. Why do you think there's a problem?

Of course, you're welcome to go digging through this garbage if you want to track down the "\tab" as suggested by VBPhilly...

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 MS Sans Serif;}}
\viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang3081\f0\fs17 dfg dsfigjkgjkg\tab jkfgjf\tab 
\par }

[QVeen72]

Hi,

You have to use :

RichTextBox1.TextRTF

to get the RTF source..

Regards
Veena

[YarrOfDoom]

I've just double-checked, and the .Text property does return tabs as expected. Why do you think there's a problem?

You were right indeed, I had a bug in my code which caused my output to be wrong, and in debugging mode, tabs aren't always displayed right.

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