Parsing Indented Text (like parsing Python)

[Stef Mientki]

> 
> The problem is, how do I figure out how many spaces represent a tab? In one
> case, someone could have their editor configured to allow tabs to use 3
> spaces and the user could intermingle tabs and spaces. In other cases, a
> user might have their editor configured to have a tab equal 8 spaces yet
> also intermingle tabs and spaces. When a human looks at the document it is
> obvious the setting but how can I make it obvious to my program?  
then statistics can do it too.


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Stef Mientki
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