question: public static String cleanTabs ( String yaml ) { if ( yaml . contains ( "\t" ) ) { LOGGER . warn ( "Yaml contains a tab characters, automatically converting to {} spaces " + "(if they occur at the beginning of a sentence). This may cause parsing" + " errors, please reformat the Yaml to use spaces only." , TAB_AS_SPACES . length ( ) ) ; List < String > lines = NEWLINE_SPLITTER . splitToList ( yaml ) ; StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder ( ) ; for ( String line : lines ) { String cleanLine = replaceStartingTabsWithSpaces ( line ) ; sb . append ( cleanLine ) ; sb . append ( "\n" ) ; } return sb . toString ( ) ; } else { return yaml ; } }
target:  Strips any tabs which are at the beginning on