How to remove a tab character from a string?

Question

Regular Expressions

Hello!
There is a line like 100644 blob a35261dac2e688dd05f297c3f802caf50e691822\tsometh
how do I replace \t with a space in it?
replace(/\t/, ' ') doesn't work

Answer 1

replace(/\\t/, ' ')
or specify in more detail which version of pearl you are using, and whether you really mean the sequence '\t' as a tab character.