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Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:09:36 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: Expanding tabs (was Re: kwik way?)
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In the last episode (May 18), Gary Kline said:
> should i use tr or sed to turn "\t" into " "?  --i.e., tabs into spaces.

tr or expand (depending on whether you want to honor the intent of the tab
or not).  sed is overkill.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com