Hi folks,
A simple requirement but I'm struggling with getting the structure and syntax 
needed to replace only the first space character in each line of a variable 
with a tab.

I have a field of label-value pairs - and some of the values contain spaces. 
This creates problems if I attempt a blanket approach of 'replace space in 
tVariable' with tab. 

So, I tried iterating through each tLine of tVariable but get a runtime error 
with 'replace space 1 in line tline with tab'. So, I'm guessing that 'space' 
can't be used to set chunk expression scope.

So, within each line, I'm iterating at character-level, with 'repeat for each 
character tChar in the line, if tChar is space then...

I've tried 'replace tChar with tab' and 'add tab after tChar' and then 'delete 
tChar' but I get errors - probably because I'm trying to delete the reference 
variable(?)

I'm sure there is a nice efficient way to do this, so any advice on structure, 
syntax or command usage would be greatly appreciated.
Best,
Keith..
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