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Remove Tabs in a String

Remove Tabs in a String

In this lesson, we will learn how to remove tabs from a string using recursion.

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What does “Removing Tabs from a String” mean?

Our task is to remove all tabs from a string. This includes the character \t and " " from a string.

Removing spaces from a string
Removing spaces from a string

Implementation

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def remove(string):
  # Base Case
  if not string:
      return ""
  # Recursive Case
  if string[0] == "\t" or string[0] == " ":
      return remove(string[1:])
  else:
      return string[0] + remove(string[1:])
# Driver Code
print(remove("Hello\tWorld"))
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