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sebastiano Junior Member Offline Posts: 75	split with tab Aug 28th, 2009, 6:08pm   hi i have a txt file with columns separated with tabs , how can i specify the tab separation as the second argument for the split command? thanks Seb

Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: split with tab Reply #1 - Aug 28th, 2009, 6:25pm   "\t"
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PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: split with tab Reply #2 - Aug 29th, 2009, 12:27am   TAB (which is just a variant of Cedric's version). Processing defines these: BACKSPACE 8   '\b' TAB       9   '\t' ENTER     10  '\n' RETURN    13  '\r' ESC       27   DELETE    127