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Hej Grant!

> and finding any `\t` tabs as well.

`col -x` will replace tabs with spaces.

$ echo -e `\tSome text.` | wc -c
12

$ echo -e `\tSome text.` | col -x | wc -c
19

You`ll probably want to replace tabs before counting characters.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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