I was looking at http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/io.html#format-1 to see if there is a way to output a \t or tab to stdout. How is this done? When I put it in like this: [io:format("#\tif i==~w:~n",[Value]) || Value <- lists:seq(2501,70100,2500)]. it puts 7 spaces in for the \t on the console. thx, -wes