Tipify expand-tabs

content/snippets/js/s/expand-tabs.md

@@ -1,20 +1,23 @@
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 title: Expand tabs into spaces
-type: snippet
+type: tip
 language: javascript
 tags: [string,regexp]
 cover: naming-conventions
-excerpt: Convert tabs to spaces, where each tab corresponds to `count` spaces.
+excerpt: Convert tabs to spaces, allowing you to control the number of spaces each tab corresponds to.
 listed: true
-dateModified: 2020-09-15
+dateModified: 2024-08-08
 ---
 
-Convert tabs to spaces, where each tab corresponds to `count` spaces.
+Tabs vs. spaces is a long-standing debate in the programming community. I don't feel like getting into that debate, but I can help you convert tabs to spaces in JavaScript.
 
-- Use `String.prototype.replace()` with a regular expression and `String.prototype.repeat()` to replace each tab character with `count` spaces.
+This entire exercise is a simple matter of **replacing each tab character** with a certain number of spaces. You can **control the number of spaces** each tab corresponds to via the `count` argument, allowing you to customize the output to your liking.
+
+Simply put, using `String.prototype.replace()` with a **regular expression** and `String.prototype.repeat()` will do the trick. The regular expression `/\t/g` matches all tab characters in the string, which are then replaced with `count` spaces.
 
 ```js
 const expandTabs = (str, count) => str.replace(/\t/g, ' '.repeat(count));
 
-expandTabs('\t\tlorem', 3); // '      lorem'
+expandTabs('\t\tlorem', 3);
+// '      lorem'
 ```