util.string.detab

Shared

Converts tab characters to spaces in a string

local result = util.string.detab(
    input
)

Type	Name	Description
`string`	input	String containing tab characters

Type	Name	Description
`string`	result	Detabbed string

Convert a single tab to spaces

local result = util.string.detab("Hello\tWorld")

core.engine.print("info", result) -- 'Hello    World'

Convert multiple tabs to spaces

local result = util.string.detab("A\tB\tC")

core.engine.print("info", result) -- 'A    B    C'

Format tab-separated values

local tsv = "Name\tAge\tCity"
local formatted = util.string.detab(tsv)

core.engine.print("info", formatted) -- 'Name    Age    City'

util.string.split

Splits a string into a table of substrings using a separator

util.string.lower

Converts all uppercase letters to lowercase