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String spaces to tabs converter

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Free online spaces to tabs converter. Just load your string and all spaces will automatically get converted to tabs. There are no intrusive ads, popups or nonsense, just a spaces to tabs converter. Load a string, turn spaces into tabs. Created for developers by developers from team Browserling.
Replacement Mode
Select this mode to get as many
spaces as there are tabs.
If the input string has several
spaces in a row, then replace
them with one tab.
Select this mode to get as many
spaces as there are whitespaces.
If the input string has several
whitespaces in a row, then
replace them with one tab.

What is a string spaces to tabs converter?

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This tool converts all space symbols in a string to tab symbols. It's also capable of replacing other whitespace characters, such as newlines, vertical tabs, form feed characters, and carriage return characters. It offers several different replacement modes (see options). They let you change the replacement behavior – you can choose which characters to replace and what to do with duplicate spaces and whitespace characters. Stringabulous!

String spaces to tabs converter examples

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One Space to One Tab
In this example, we convert each space character to a tab character. After the replacement, all words get perfectly vertically aligned under each other. This makes the input data about the average sleep period for various animals very easy to read.
Animal Sleep Unit Dogs 10.1 hours Cats 12.5 hours Lions 13.5 hours Horses 2 hours
Animal Sleep Unit Dog 10.1 hours Cat 12.5 hours Lion 13.5 hours Horse 2 hours
Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Select this mode to get as many
spaces as there are tabs.
Multiple Spaces
This example replaces several spaces that come one after another with a single tab. As you can see, the input string is pretty chaotic, some lines have one space, some have five. By enabling the second replacement mode, all duplicate spaces get replaced with a single tab character and we get neat tab-separated string columns with an even distance between the words on every column.
Andrew - Andrea Robert - Roberta Louis - Louisa Martin - Martha Oliver - Olivia Joseph - Joanna
Andrew - Andrea Robert - Roberta Louis - Louisa Martin - Martha Oliver - Olivia Joseph - Joanna
Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
If the input string has several
spaces in a row, then replace
them with one tab.
Replace Whitespaces
In this example, we use the option that replaces all whitespaces with tabs. All whitespaces mean spaces, existing tabs, newlines and other characters that change string spacing in one way or another.
best programmers use tabs
best programmers use tabs
Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Select this mode to get as many
spaces as there are whitespaces.
Сlean Duplicate Whitespaces
This example cleans a string from multiple spaces and newlines, and puts just one tab between the words.
It's better to have one tab instead of five whitespaces.
It's better to have one tab instead of five whitespaces.
Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
If the input string has several
whitespaces in a row, then
replace them with one tab.
Pro tips Master online string tools
You can pass input to this tool via ?input query argument and it will automatically compute output. Here's how to type it in your browser's address bar. Click to try!
https://onlinestringtools.com/convert-spaces-to-tabs?input=Animal%20Sleep%20Unit%0ADogs%2010.1%20hours%0ACats%2012.5%20hours%0ALions%2013.5%20hours%0AHorses%202%20hours&only-spaces=true
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