Converting space- to tab-delimited

[Alex Tweedly]

Gregory Lypny wrote:

> I would greatly appreciated your help with choosing the regular 
> expression I need to use in replaceText in order to convert a text 
> file from space delimited to tab delimited when the number of spaces 
> between words is not constant.
>
> Here's an example of one line of input data.
>
> word1 [3 spaces] word2 [5 spaces] word3 [2 spaces] cr
>
> I'd like to convert that to
>
> word1 [tab] word2 [tab] word3 [tab]
>
replaceText(tString, " +", TAB)

Note that is 2 characters : space and +

For example

> put replacetext("asd   qwe werer          z", " +", ",")

puts

> asd,qwe,werer,z

btw - Do you need to do anything special with a line like
[3 spaces] word1 [2 spaces] word2

The above replacetext will give
TAB word1 TAB word2 cr
which is probably what you want - but worth thinking about as a 
potential special case.

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