In Sublime Text 2, I want search and replace by the TAB character.
I tried replacing with \t char but it's not working.
How can I do it?
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2 Answers
You can use regular expressions by clicking on this button:
The regex for a Tab character is \t.
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11Thanks works fine. But you don't need use
/before and after\tis enough– shingaraFeb 29, 2012 at 15:37 -
Also, it's possible to insert/paste a symbol of an actual tab(ASCII, 9 or U+0009) into "Replace" field. Couldn't paste here because the StackOverflow replaces these in comments section.– ArtfaithOct 12, 2020 at 13:27
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I am trying to search for a pipe
|and replace with a tab, when i use regular expression search as shown above, the search seems to match every character - maybe i have to escape the pipe? e.g. search for\|? Feb 8, 2022 at 5:26 -
The accepted answer only give half of the answer to the question
If you want to replace ',' and insert tab:
But to replace the tab text with real tab you first have to replace tab text with a different character, and then do the tab insert:
Step1/2)
Step2/2)
