str_replace tab to... what?

[yoshida]

Currently I'm writing a script manager to use one website as an editor for my central script library, and I'm wondering how I'm going to str_replace a tab to an empty space of equivalent width (and back). Any suggestions?Help appreciated.

[justsomeguy]

You need to determine how big you want a tab to be. It's machine and application-dependent. Word might show a tab as 8 spaces, and notepad might show it as 5. So the first thing is to determine how big you want a tab to be.

$tab_to_spaces = "	 "; #5 spaces$new_str = str_replace("\t", $tab_to_spaces, $old_str); #convert tabs to spaces$new_str = str_replace($tab_to_spaces, "\t", $old_str); #spaces to tabs