Re: tabs to spaces
Re: tabs to spaces
- Subject: Re: tabs to spaces
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:52:22 -0500
I'm a bit confused by the original message since it sounds like he'd
want to convert the other way, but a simple search and replace of tabs
with spaces is missing the point, which is to honor the tabstops in
the transition. Thus, with a tabstop of 8, 123<tab>456 should turn
into '123 456' with 5 spaces in place of the tab, but
'1234<tab>567' should turn into '1234 567' with only 4 spaces
there.
do shell script "expand" and do shell script "unexpand" seem likely to
be helpful here.
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:43 AM, David Crowe
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Convert tabs to spaces?
> Piece of cake with Satimage OSAX (free):
>
> set tab to ASCII character 15
> set theString to "AAA" & tab & "BBB" & tab & "CCC"
> set theString to change tab into "<tab>" in theString
> theString --> "AAA<tab>BBB<tab>CCC"
>
> And they have a free AppleScript editor that I use instead of the built in
> editor:
> http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads/index.html
> - David Crowe
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