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01-22-2013
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Changing only the first space to a tab in a space delimited text file
Hi,
I have a space delimited text file but I only want to change the first space to a tab and keep the rest of the spaces intact. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! |
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01-22-2013
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What have you tried so far?
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01-24-2013
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Code:
:%s/<space>/<tab>/ |
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