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Meaning of tabify | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To reformat (text) by converting spaces into tab characters.

transitive

Examples

“A common use of this program is to tabify text files which you've loaded in over the phone from a computer system (like UNIX) that tends to turn all tabs into spaces for 300 baud DEC writers.”
“You can only tabify source code”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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