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---
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title: Expand tabs into spaces
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type: snippet
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tags: [string,regexp]
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author: chalarangelo
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cover: houses-rock-sea
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dateModified: 2020-09-15T16:28:04+03:00
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---
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Convert tabs to spaces, where each tab corresponds to `count` spaces.
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- Use `String.prototype.replace()` with a regular expression and `String.prototype.repeat()` to replace each tab character with `count` spaces.
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```js
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const expandTabs = (str, count) => str.replace(/\t/g, ' '.repeat(count));
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```
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```js
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expandTabs('\t\tlorem', 3); // ' lorem'
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```
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