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Reformat vs Tabify - What's the difference?

reformat | tabify |

As verbs the difference between reformat and tabify

is that reformat is while tabify is (computing) to reformat (text) by converting spaces into tab characters.

reformat

English

Verb

  • To format anew or again, generally erasing a previous format.
    • We had to reformat the computer's hard disk to get rid of the virus.
    Let's reformat that text to make it easier to read.
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    tabify

    English

    Verb

  • (computing) To reformat (text) by converting spaces into tab characters.
  • * 1985 , Terry A. Ward, Applied programming techniques in C
    • 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.
  • * 1999 , Michael Amundsen, Practical Visual InterDev 6
    • You can only tabify source code

    Antonyms

    * untabify