Indent and Outdent Lines in Structured Text

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Indents and outdents in structured text are used to easily show blocks of code, i.e. the code within an IF statement or WHILE loop:

IF (i=1) THEN
  j:=1;
  k:=2;
ELSE
  j:=2;
  k:=1;
END_IF;

If you are using multiple IF statements and then add or delete one of the indentation levels, the lines will look out of place, which makes the programs harder to read and understand.

Highlight multiple lines (this doesn't work on single lines) and press the TAB key to indent all the lines at once. To outdent, use SHIFT-TAB.

These are the same shortcuts as used in Visual Studio, however Visual Studio also provides icons to do the same thing and so users may not be used to these shortcuts.

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