On 12/24/24 10:29 AM, Ben Koenig wrote:
On Tuesday, December 24th, 2024 at 7:04 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 12/24/24 8:43 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Tue, 24 Dec 2024, Rich Shepard wrote:
Converting between spaces and tabs is easily done with sed, and that's
what
my web searches show. But, I don't recall a tool that will tell me
whether
the white spaces in a text file are spaces or a tab, and that's not
showing
up in my web search. How's it done?
Fugeddaboutit, gawk treats all white spaces as a single space so it don't
matter.
I have a PDF file with three columns: First, Last, and Company. When I use
pdftotext I end up with a single column: all first names, a space, all last
names, a space, all company names rather than rows with three fields. I've
no idea what software produced the PDF but now I need to figure out how to
convert the columns to rows. I'm sure emacs' rectangle commands will do
this
so that's what I'll use until I get it right.
Rich
Try looking at the file with GHEX - GNOME Hex editor for files.
HTH
IIRC the regex pattern for whitespace is \s. This matches all whitespace
characters, tabs or otherwise.
So? ?? ;}
GHEX has two panes. One with characters. One with the actual hex value
of each location in the file. IIUC OP wants to be able to distinguish
multiple space characters from a single tab character.
-Ben
