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En Tab Function
Co Decs Class

Public Function EnTab( _
      ByVal vValue As Variant _
    , Optional ByVal vTabWidth As Variant _
    ) As Variant

"Compress Spaces To Tabs"
Replaces sequences of space characters which overlap tab stop positions with tab characters (Chr$(9)) thereby reducing the space required to store strings which contain many spaces.
Function assumes that there is a tab stop every vTabWidth characters.

Examples: 
    EnTab("12      345     6789") = "12" + Chr$(9) + "345" + Chr$(9) + "6789"
    EnTab("12  345 6789", 4) = "12" + Chr$(9) + "345 6789"
    EnTab("12 345 6789") = "12 345 6789"
See also: 
    EnTabTable Function
    DeTab Function
    vbTab Property
vValue: String whose runs of space characters are to be selectively replaced with tab characters. Function returns Null if vValue is Null or cannot be fixed up to a String.

vTabWidth: The number of positions between each tab stop. vTabWidth defaults to 8 (eight) if it is missing or Null or cannot be fixed up to a String. If vTabWidth is 8 (eight) for example, there will be a tab stop before columns 9, 17, 25, 33, etc.

vTabWidth is set to 1 (one) if it is less than 1 (one).

Note: This function will not replace individual space characters with a tab character if that space happens to fall on a tab stop; it will only replace runs of two or more spaces with a tab.

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