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Title: How to convert tabs to spaces without extra text modification
Post by: Cypress on June 05, 2008, 01:08:56 pm

Sorry for my bad english.
Needed only tabs to spaces conversion, but when i am using AStyle plugin with custom settings and only "Convert TABs to spaces" selected result is:
Before

if( expression )
{
    return 1;
}


After

if ( expression )
{
    return 1;
}

What about space after if? Workarounds, another ways to solve this problem?

Title: Re: How to convert tabs to spaces without extra text modification
Post by: dmoore on June 05, 2008, 03:49:14 pm

(as much as i hate to state the obvious) search and replace?

Title: Re: How to convert tabs to spaces without extra text modification
Post by: Biplab on June 05, 2008, 05:13:10 pm

Quote from: Cypress on June 05, 2008, 01:08:56 pm

Needed only tabs to spaces conversion, ...

Have you heard of a nice utility called Swiss File Knife? Use it and you can convert Tabs-to-Spaces without loosing formatting. Download it from-

Quote

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=160478

To convert tabs to spaces, type the following command at command prompt.

Code

sfk detab=4 <filename>

It will replace each Tab with 4 spaces.

Title: Re: How to convert tabs to spaces without extra text modification
Post by: Cypress on June 05, 2008, 08:00:17 pm

Thank you very much. 'sfk' works wery well, without lossing formatting. Tabs was converted AND columns of text is correctly aligned  :D:

Code

#define US_SC_RBC   0x01
#define US_SC_8020  0x02
#define US_SC_QIC   0x03

search->replace... is works too, but code look messy:

Code

#define US_SC_RBC    0x01
#define US_SC_8020    0x02
#define US_SC_QIC    0x03

Title: Re: How to convert tabs to spaces without extra text modification
Post by: rodrigoluis on September 30, 2016, 06:03:39 pm

I know this topic is old, but if someone is looking to convert tab to spaces easily, maybe this site could help:
http://tabstospaces.com/