[Tutor] How o convert spaces into tabs??

[vince spicer]

regex will do it


import re

line = re.sub(r"\s+", "\t", line)

print line



Vince

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:42 AM, jyotsna guleria
<jyotsna.guleria at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hello every one,
>
> I am trying to parse a file:
>
> I want to convert all the spaces in between the characters to single tab.
>
> e.g: my file has contents like:
>
> 1G5            79011      1        0      2       0      0        0
> 0       0       0        0
> 5Ht-2          60459      1        1      0       0      0        0
> 0       0       0        0
>
>
> I want them to be separated by a single tab not with spaces..
>
> It should look like:
>
> 1G5    79011    1    0    2    0    0    0    0    0    0    0
> 5Ht-2    60459    1    1    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0
>
> each separated by Tab...
>
> It is a text file containing such a data ..
>
>
> Thanks
> --
> Jyotsna Guleria
>
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