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 TABSTRIP(<expC> [,<N spaces per tab>])
 Eliminates tab characters from text.
 Returns <expC> with tab characters replaced by spaces.

 <spaces per tab> will be substituted for each tab character in <expC>.
 Valid range is from zero to 16; default is 1 if omitted.

 Useful in editing and handling files with tab characters.

 A tab character has an ASCII value of 09.

 * Strip tabs while reading file into memo field
 REPLACE Memo_field WITH TABSTRIP(FILEREAD("Textfile.txt"))

 * Strip tabs while writing one file to another
 written = FILEWRITE( "Newfile.txt", TABSTRIP(FILEREAD("Textfile.txt")) )
 IF written = "DONE"
    ? "File was successfully written"
 ELSE
    ? written   && error message
 ENDIF


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