Quote Originally Posted by vart View Post
Are you sure you have copied the tab character?
Or the "source" editor replaced the tab character with several spaces before putting the block into the copy-buffer?
Yes, I am sure that it is the tab character, because when I put the cursor on a given line with the tab characters, I used the right arrow key to move the cursor horizontally across the text, and when it gets to the tab character that is there, it *jumps* across several spaces, instead of just going one space, like it does for space characters. That is how I know it is a tab character. That also with the fact that my program's output file, which is a copy of the input file with said tabs replaced with spaces, doesn't do that on the same lines as the original file, since the tab characters were replaced with several spaces.