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

Replace tabs with spaces.

Contents

• What is this?
• When should I use this?
• Install
• Use
• API
  • detab(value[, size=4])
• Types
• Compatibility
• Contribute
• Security
• License

What is this?

This package can turn a string with tabs into a string with spaces.

When should I use this?

You can use this package if you want to define how big the tab size is.

Install

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>

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 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.

Types

This package is fully typed with TypeScript. It exports no additional types.

Compatibility

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.

Contribute

Yes please! See How to Contribute to Open Source.

Security

This package is safe.

License

MIT © Titus Wormer