On 1105122068 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch "George Georgalis" wrote: > >s/[ \t]*/\t/g > >substitute, any combination of spaces and tabs with one tab character, >globaly across the line (untested) This will intersperse tabs between all of the characters, because <atom>* matches 0 or more <atom>s. -- Roland Dowdeswell http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/