Putting a tab character in an output record.

Question

I have tried many things to put a tab character between fields in an output record. But it keeps putting the "\t" instead. I thought I have done this is the past. I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me how to do this. Here is first part of record string that I am creating. Thanks,

arep

         char tab = '\t';
 
         Output_Files.PrintExtract(subClient + tab
            + Convert.ToString(sourceReader["ContractNbr"]).Trim() + tab
            + Convert.ToString(sourceReader["PersonNo"]) +  '\t'
            + Convert.ToInt64(sourceReader["MemberDateofBirth"]).ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")

A Repasky · Answer

You were correct. I changed it to StringBuilder and now it works. Code snapshot: StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder (); sb.Append(subClient); sb.Append( 	 ); sb.Append(sourceReader[ ContractNbr ].ToString().Trim()); sb.Append( 	 ); sb.Append(sourceReader[ PersonNo ].ToString()); Output_Files .PrintExtract(sb true ); Thanks arep

Vulpes · Answer

I don't think there's anything wrong with what you've done as far as normal output is concerned. So it might be something to do with how the PrintExtract method is interpreting the tab character i.e. literally rather than as a tab.