[PLUG] Identifying white space in text files [RESOLVED]
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Dec 24 14:43:33 UTC 2024
On Tue, 24 Dec 2024, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Converting between spaces and tabs is easily done with sed, and that's what
> my web searches show. But, I don't recall a tool that will tell me whether
> the white spaces in a text file are spaces or a tab, and that's not showing
> up in my web search. How's it done?
Fugeddaboutit, gawk treats all white spaces as a single space so it don't
matter.
I have a PDF file with three columns: First, Last, and Company. When I use
pdftotext I end up with a single column: all first names, a space, all last
names, a space, all company names rather than rows with three fields. I've
no idea what software produced the PDF but now I need to figure out how to
convert the columns to rows. I'm sure emacs' rectangle commands will do this
so that's what I'll use until I get it right.
Rich
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