You can indent command line information when it is displayed on the screen by beginning it with spaces. However, wtreqinfo allows you to include leading spaces or tabs using the "<" and ">" characters, respectively.

These characters must follow any required new line generation or suppression symbols (plus or minus signs, respectively), and if both space characters ("<") and tab characters (">") are required, the spaces must come first. Using these "hard" characters makes leading spaces easier to count than actual spaces, and is the only way to generate a tab.

Each "<" is replaced by a space, and each ">" by a tab, before the ensuing text is written to the screen. The space and tab characters themselves are not displayed.

This translation of less than and greater than signs is only performed if they are found at the start of the displayable text, they are written to the screen literally if they occur after any other character has been written. If you require multiple spaces or tabs in the middle of displayed text, use new line suppression to join a command line parameter to the previous one, then begin it with the required white space translation characters.

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Leading White Space