detab

What is detab?

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.

What are detab's main functionalities?

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'

Other packages similar to detab

tab-to-space

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.

README

detab

Detab: tabs → spaces.

Install

This package is ESM only: Node 12+ is needed to use it and it must be imported instead of required.

npm:

npm install detab

Use

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

API

This package exports the following identifiers: 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.

License

MIT © Titus Wormer