How can I find and replace tab or space characters?

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I have a string, and I would like to find and replace the tabs and spaces with other characters. However, the STRFIND or STRREP functions don't seem to work.

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MathWorks Support Team
MathWorks Support Team on 17 Jan 2012
The main method to replace tabs and spaces in MATLAB is to use regular expressions. Specifically, the REGEXPREP command is able to find tabs or spaces and replace them with any string. For example, to replace tabs with spaces in a string:
updatedString = regexprep(originalString, '\t', ' ');
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Bradley Stiritz
Bradley Stiritz on 9 May 2014
Edited: Bradley Stiritz on 9 May 2014
Hi, I'm not sure your proposed method works on non-printing ASCII tab characters. I also need to programmatically replace ASCII tab characters (not visible '\t' sequences).
Do you know please how I can accomplish this? Any help appreciated. Thanks for your consideration.

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