Handling the TAB character in Java

Question

I m going through a configuration file with a RandomAccessFile reader  I have a configuration option which is one  1  tab away from the start of the line  When my reader gets this line  would I be able to just tell it to skip one character and then start reading  or does the tab character not work that way    Example   This is a line         This line has a tab   Let s say I ve loaded the second line into my reader  If I m playing with that String and I do currentLine   currentLine subString 1    Would that give me   currentLine    This line has a tab     Thanks for your help

User · Accepted Answer

Yes the tab character is one character  You can match it in java with   t

User · Answer

Or you could just perform a trim   on the string to handle the case when people use spaces instead of tabs  unless you are reading makefiles

User · Answer

You can also use the tab character   t  to represent a tab  instead of   t    char c   t   char c   char 9

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