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How to modify the indentation before sectioning titles in the table of contents?

I have a LaTeX document with many subsections (more than 100), which give rise to an issue. Here is how it looks like for a specific part of the Table of contents:

...
2.98 Subsection whatever.
2.99 One more subsection.
2.100This is the hundredth section.
...

i.e. the horizontal space between the subsection number and the name of the subsection gets to zero. Is there an easy way to increase this space, so the subsection title does not 'touch' the section numbering?

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For what it's worth, tocloft provides the length \cftsubsecnumwidth which represents the width of the box containing the \subsection numbers in them. Redefining this length solves your problem. Here's a minimal example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tocloft}% http://ctan.org/pkg/tocloft
\setlength{\cftsubsecnumwidth}{4em}% Set length of number width in ToC for \subsection
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{This is a section}
\subsection{This is a subsection}
\setcounter{subsection}{999}
\subsection{This is another subsection}
\end{document}
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