Is there an edit that can do this?

[Kenneth Brody]

Brian K. White wrote:
[...]
> It's really 8 spaces? Not a single tab, which is both a common delimiter
> and which most editors and viewers will display as 8 spaces?
> Sure the data wasn't viewed and re-saved somewhere along the way
> possibly changing tabs to spaces?

Tabs are not displayed / converted to 8 spaces.  Rather, they are displayed 
or converted to the number of spaces required to take you to the next tab 
stop, which is typically 8 characters.

So, "foo^Ibar" would be "foo" 5 spaces "bar".

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Kenneth Brody