Getting a TAB in a string

[paulsim]

I want to creating an output string from variable - something like

$outstring = sprintf("%s\t$s\t\n",$var1,$var2);

The tab characters do not end up separating the variable output.

Any idea how to get a tab into a string like this to import it into Excel so that it goes into separate cells.

Paul

[znouza]

format it as table, with <tr> and <td>, and export via content-type header() with value application/vnd.ms-excel ..

[paulsim]

Thanks Tom

sounds cool.

I'll try it.

What does /vnd do????

Paul