From a4b254d1cf36d22ed8287ba3410df37730babcae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Black <steveb@stevenblack.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:36:38 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #77: fix - replace tabs with space.

---
 updateHostsFile.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/updateHostsFile.py b/updateHostsFile.py
index 358eda58c..308f4704b 100644
--- a/updateHostsFile.py
+++ b/updateHostsFile.py
@@ -251,6 +251,8 @@ def removeDupsAndExcl(mergeFile):
         write = 'true'
         # Explicit encoding
         line = line.decode("UTF-8")
+        # replace tabs with space
+        line = line.replace('\t+', ' ')
         # Testing the first character doesn't require startswith
         if line[0] == '#' or re.match(r'^\s*$', line[0]):
             # Cross-python write