Re: I don't quite understand this exercise...

"Patrick M." wrote:
>Ok, thanks, and everyone else. So what you're saying is, they want me to
>ask the user/get and set a variable, say n, and replace all tabs with n
>spaces, and they don't want me to calculate the number of spaces a tab
>takes up on the system?
>
Almost there... They are asking for a program that will take as input:

(a) A text file containing some tab characters. And
(b) A number 'N' telling what is the tab "spacing"

And produce, as output, a text file where every tab has been replaced
by a *variable* number of spaces between 1 and N so that the file
"looks" similar to the original when displayed or printed in a device
that uses 'N' colums per tab.

For example, if N is 4 and the original file is:

int i = 0;
int jj = 0;
int kkk = 0;

Containing a tab before each 'int', a space after each 'int' and a tab
before each '=', the output should be:

int i = 0;
int jj = 0;
int kkk = 0;

containing 4 spaces before each int, one space after each int, 3
spaces after 'i', 2 spaces after 'jj' and 1 space after 'kkk';



Roberto Waltman

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