If your goal is, very specifically, to be sure that every line in your file has
17 tabs in it, there is a simple solution.
>From the BBEdit Text menu, choose “Process lines containing…”.
Choose the “Find lines that … do not contain: option.
In the search field, enter
([^\t]*\t){17}
Check the Grep option, choose your preferred result options, and click Process.
You will get a list (or report, or whatever) of all the lines in your file that
don’t contain 17 tabs.
Cheers,
Neil Faiman
> On Mar 17, 2023, at 6:35 PM, Laurel Cooper <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I work with large, tsv-formatted text files The files are 17 column text
> files with the columns separated by tabs. I need to be able to see that none
> of the tabs are missing.
> I can see the tab stops by turning on "Show invisibles", but in some lines
> the tabs are basically on top of each other, and in other places, the text is
> on top of them.
> Is there a better way to display these files?
> I took a screen shot as an example:
> Thanks!
>
> <tsv.jpg>
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