I want to stop the \t tab after 5 spaces, How do i do that?

[Sarang07]

I want to stop the \t tab after 5 spaces, How do i do that?

[ithelp]

Not sure whether you can do it , but check stty manual.

[gerard4143]

You could try something like below...I generally don't like the solution but it works for some situations

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define t "     "

int main(int argc, char**argv)
{		
	fprintf(stdout, "this\tis\ta\ttest", stdout);	
	exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

[Ancient Dragon]

You could try something like below...I

That should produce an error because \' ' is not a valid escape sequence.

If you don't like the default spacing then don't use tabs. Do something like this: printf("%-20s", "Hello World"); where the text string will be left-justified in a field 20 characters wide, right-side padded with spaces.

[Narue]

C doesn't specify tab stops, only tab characters. It's up to the program consuming those characters to interpret the character with a certain tab stop length, just like it's up to the same program to accurately print the 'Q' character. Translation: change the properties of whatever program is displaying those tabs to use a five character tab stop explicitly. Most likely this will be your shell, for command line programs that send output to stdout.

[Sarang07]

It does not work for me.

It is as the default. I modified it but it does not worked.

Help.