Hello R users,
I have a string, for example:
x <- "\t\tabc\t def"
This string can contain any number of tabulations. I want to replace each
tabulation of the begining of the string by the same number of space:
" abc\t def"
I'm trying to do this with gsub :
> gsub("\t", " ", x) # replace every \t
[1] " abc def"
> sub("^\t", " ", x) # replace only the first \t
[1] " \tabc\t def"
> sub("^\t*", " ", x) # replace all beginning \t, but only one space
[1] " abc\t def"
How can I do this ?
Thank you very much.
david
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