Search and replace with TAB character in Sublime Text 2

Question

In Sublime Text 2, I want search and replace by the TAB character.

I tried replacing with \t char but it's not working.

How can I do it?

score 103 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 19 '14 at 14:55

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You can use regular expressions by clicking on this button:

sublime

The regex for a Tab character is \t.

edited Feb 19 '14 at 14:55

Paolo Moretti

answered Feb 29 '12 at 15:19

remjih

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Thanks works fine. But you don't need use `/` before and after `\t` is enough – shingara Feb 29 '12 at 15:37
Also, it's possible to insert/paste a symbol of an actual tab(ASCII, 9 or U+0009) into "Replace" field. Couldn't paste here because the StackOverflow replaces these in comments section. – Artfaith Oct 12 '20 at 13:27
I am trying to search for a pipe `|` and replace with a tab, when i use regular expression search as shown above, the search seems to match every character - maybe i have to escape the pipe? e.g. search for `\|`? – user1063287 Feb 08 '22 at 05:26
It works. Thx for you! – dlarchikov Jun 20 '23 at 07:33

Punnerud · Answer 2 · 2022-11-16T12:00:31.473

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The accepted answer only give half of the answer to the question

If you want to replace ',' and insert tab:

But to replace the tab text with real tab you first have to replace tab text with a different character, and then do the tab insert:

Step1/2)

Step2/2)

edited Nov 16 '22 at 12:00

answered Nov 16 '22 at 09:57

Punnerud

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