When you are printing a tab character to the standard output using printf
in C, it outputs some space which is apparently 4 characters in length.
printf("\t");
Is there any way by which I can control the tab width in the above case? Any help or suggestion is appreciated.
That's something controlled by your terminal, not by printf
.
printf
simply sends a \t
to the output stream (which can be a tty, a file etc), it doesn't send a number of spaces.
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