Regex Convert tabs to spaces, preserving columns

[Roy Beatty]

Greetings,

I want to convert tabs to spaces, but not a fixed number of spaces. TextPad's convert-tabs-to-spaces-on-save behavior preserves the columns that visible characters appear in.

How do I perform that with a Regular Expression?

Is there an option on the Edit or Search menus to do this?

Thanks,

Roy

[Roy Beatty]

I've since learned that Perl has a command for this distinct from s{}{}.&#32&#32It seems that TextPad's regex is set up such that if S won't do it, then neither will Find & Replace.

[Roy Beatty]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&#32&#32bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

[Roy Beatty]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

[Roy Beatty]

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