im trying to figure something out here that doesnt make sense! im outputting 3 rows of arrays to the screen and they are formatted correctly so that it looks like a table: ie:

Range    10-20    20-30    30-40    41-50    51-60    61-70
Count    0        0        0        0        3        0
Percent  0        0        0        0        75       0
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however when i output exactly the same stuff into a txt file it comes up as something like this:

Range    10-20    20-30    30-40    41-50    51-60    61-70
Count    0   0   0   0   3    0
Percent  0   0   0   0   75   0
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im using the "\t" in a foreach loop to seperate the values in the array. can i do this in some other way so that when it gets outputted to the file it looks the same as it does when outputted on the screen???

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