How to replace just the first found space with tab for all lines in a variable?

[Jim Ault]

Debugging hint when working with 'tab'
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using "M" so that it is easy to see the replacements and extras.
so try this

put tab into T
put "M" into T --for debugging

put fld 1 into tempp
repeat for each line LNN in tempp
       put word 1 to -1 of LNN into cleanLine  --trim
       put word 1 of cleanLine & T & word 2 to -1 of cleanLine & cr  
after newList
    end repeat
    ;put newList
    --filter newList without T  --in case there should be empty lines
    put 0 into prevNum
    repeat until the number of chars in newList is prevNum
       put the number of chars in newList into prevNum
       replace (cr & T & cr) with ( cr & cr) in newList
    end repeat
    ;put newList
    filter newList without empty
    ;put newList


Jim Ault
Las Vegas