detab: a pedestrian string detabulator

replaces TAB characters with the appropriate number of SPACE characters

Description

DETAB replaces TAB characters with the appropriate number of SPACE characters from the contents of a file or a cell array (containing strings) such that the absolute position of text entries is preserved.

This is particularly useful for populating UICONTROLs (eg, listboxes) with the contents of files or strings that contain TABs

see
> help detab
for explanations and the accompanying image for an example

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; fdep: a pedestrian function dependencies finder
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a)
• Other requirements: good spirits!

[Fred Sieling]

Excellent for simple strings. I haven't tried anything more.

[Alexi Nedo]

One Interesting Point:

Search for the tab (\t) character in a string.
1- findstr (str, '\t') --> does NOT Work

2- tab = sprintf('\t');
   findstr(str, s) --> Works