in reply to spaces wont be displayed

It looks like you are printing to a HTML page - that will eat all whitespace.

To preserve space in HTML, use " " for each space.

UPDATE:Ack ! The PerMonks web server ate up my Ampersand-n-b-s-p-semicolon that was supposed to show within quotes. Here is what that line was supposed to look like: 

To preserve space in HTML, use  " " for each space.

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Re: Re: spaces wont be displayed
by exussum0 (Vicar) on May 24, 2004 at 22:49 UTC
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Re: Re: spaces wont be displayed
by HollyKing (Pilgrim) on May 24, 2004 at 23:09 UTC

    You could also use <pre>. Browsers aren't required to preserve whitespace but I haven't found one that doesn't.

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