delimiters to TAB convert_characters.py $input $convert_from $out_file1 Whitespaces Tabs Dots Commas Dashes Underscores Pipes Colons

**What it does** Converts all delimiters of a specified type into TABs. Consecutive characters are condensed. For example, if columns are separated by 5 spaces they will converted into 1 tab. ----- **Example** - Input file:: chrX||151283558|151283724|NM_000808_exon_8_0_chrX_151283559_r|0|- chrX|151370273|151370486|NM_000808_exon_9_0_chrX_151370274_r|0|- chrX|151559494|151559583|NM_018558_exon_1_0_chrX_151559495_f|0|+ chrX|151564643|151564711|NM_018558_exon_2_0_chrX_151564644_f||||0|+ - Converting all pipe delimiters of the above file to TABs will get:: chrX 151283558 151283724 NM_000808_exon_8_0_chrX_151283559_r 0 - chrX 151370273 151370486 NM_000808_exon_9_0_chrX_151370274_r 0 - chrX 151559494 151559583 NM_018558_exon_1_0_chrX_151559495_f 0 + chrX 151564643 151564711 NM_018558_exon_2_0_chrX_151564644_f 0 +