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.
detab
Detab: tabs → spaces.
Install
npm:
npm install detab
Use
var detab = require('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
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