detab
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Replace tabs with spaces.
This package can turn a string with tabs into a string with spaces.
You can use this package if you want to define how big the tab size is.
This package is ESM only. In Node.js (version 14.14+, 16.0+), install with npm:
npm install detab
In Deno with esm.sh
:
import {detab} from 'https://esm.sh/detab@3'
In browsers with esm.sh
:
<script type="module">
import {detab} from 'https://esm.sh/detab@3?bundle'
</script>
import {detab} from 'detab'
console.log(detab('\tfoo\nbar\tbaz'))
console.log(detab('\tfoo\nbar\tbaz', 2))
console.log(detab('\tfoo\nbar\tbaz', 8))
Yields:
foo
bar baz
foo
bar baz
foo
bar baz
This package exports the identifier detab
.
There is no default export.
detab(value[, size=4])
Replace tabs with spaces in value
(string
), being smart about which column
the tab is at and which size
(number
, default: 4
) should be used.
This package is fully typed with TypeScript. It exports no additional types.
This package is at least compatible with all maintained versions of Node.js. As of now, that is Node.js 14.14+ and 16.0+. It also works in Deno and modern browsers.
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This package is safe.
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Detab: tabs -> spaces
The npm package detab receives a total of 2,289,045 weekly downloads. As such, detab popularity was classified as popular.
We found that detab demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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