Re: TABs in SQR?

[Ken Goolsby <kgoolsby@YAHOO.COM>]

Ultraedit rocks (sorry)

--- John Milardovic <milardj@SX.COM> wrote:
> Hi Sharon.
>         My company has a policy of NOT letting any
> tabs in our source code.
> I'm not sure if TABS cause problems in SQR or
> whether this is just a
> holdover from experience with other languages.
> Anyway what I wanted to
> mention is that if you're company does have a NO TAB
> rule you might want to
> use Ultraedit to code your SQR (as I highly
> recommend) it has a feature that
> replaces all tabs with spaces and another feature
> that makes the TAB key
> translate into user defined number of spaces.  Or if
> you're working on UNIX
> you can run this perl one liner to get rid of tabs:
>
>         perl -pe -i.bak 's/\t/     /g'
> sourcecodefile
>
> where /     / has the number of spaces you want to
> translate tabs to.  This
> script will make changes in <sourcecodefile> and
> save the original in
> <sourcecodefile>.bak.
>
> John Milardovic
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sharon Bennett
> [SMTP:sbennett@SOFTWAREARCH.COM]
> > Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 1:21 PM
> > To:   Multiple recipients of list SQR-USERS
> > Subject:      TABs in SQR?
> >
> > A fellow consultant who has been coding SQR for
> several years recently
> > told
> > me to make sure I have no TABs in my programs. Now
> I think to this point I
> > may only have had a couple in the comments in my
> programs; however, my
> > question is 'Why is this important?' I can not
> find a reference to TABs in
> > the SQR3 User Guide nor in the book SQR in
> PeopleSoft and Other
> > Applications. Granted I have not read either of
> the books cover to cover.
> > Another consultant here says he has never heard
> that TABs cause problems
> > before now. I have been writing SQR now for 6
> months, and was a Visual
> > Basic
> > programmer prior to this, so this seems really odd
> to me.
>

===
Ken Goolsby/s/

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