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The detab npm package is a utility for converting tabs in a string to spaces. It is particularly useful when dealing with code or text that needs to be formatted with a consistent number of spaces instead of tabs for better readability or to conform to certain coding standards.
Tab to Space Conversion
Converts all tabs in a string to a specified number of spaces. In this example, each tab is replaced with 4 spaces.
const detab = require('detab');
const textWithTabs = 'Hello\tWorld';
const textWithSpaces = detab(textWithTabs, 4);
console.log(textWithSpaces); // Output: 'Hello World'
This package provides similar functionality to detab by converting tabs to spaces. It allows specifying the number of spaces to replace each tab with, much like detab.
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.
FAQs
Detab: tabs -> spaces
The npm package detab receives a total of 1,063,122 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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