Expand tabs in a string to spaces

strs_expandtabs replaces each tab character (\\t) in a string with aspecified number of spaces. This function behaves similarly to Python'sstr.expandtabs() method.

Usage

strs_expandtabs(string, tabsize=8)

Arguments

string

A character vector where each element is a string in which toexpand tabs.

tabsize

An integer specifying the number of spaces to replace each tabcharacter with. Defaults to 8.

Value

A character vector of the same length asstring, with tabs in eachelement replaced bytabsize number of spaces.

See also

Examples

strs_expandtabs("hello\tworld",4)#> [1] "hello    world"strs_expandtabs("one\ttwo\tthree",8)#> [1] "one        two        three"