Text indentation detect

text-indentation-detect · version 1.0.0 · Text · free, no key needed

Detect whether a text uses tabs or spaces for indentation by counting lines.

Use when you need to: text indentation detect · detect indentation · check if text uses tabs or spaces.

Supported

• text indentation detect
• detect indentation
• check if text uses tabs or spaces

Not supported

• detect indentation size
• fix indentation
• parse code structure

Behavior

• Analyzes each line to determine its leading whitespace.
• A line is "tab_indented" if it starts with one or more tabs and no spaces before the first non-whitespace character.
• A line is "space_indented" if it starts with one or more spaces and no tabs before the first non-whitespace character.
• A line is "mixed_indented" if it starts with a combination of tabs and spaces.
• Empty lines and lines with no leading whitespace are ignored.
• predominant is "tabs" if tab_indented_lines > space_indented_lines, "spaces" if space_indented_lines > tab_indented_lines, and "none" otherwise.

Input

• text (string, required): max length 1048576

Output

• tab_indented_lines (integer, required): min 0
• space_indented_lines (integer, required): min 0
• mixed_indented_lines (integer, required): min 0
• predominant (one of "tabs", "spaces", "none", required)

Limits

• max text bytes: 1048576
• max output bytes: 1024

Example

Request input:

{
  "text": "function foo() {\n\treturn 1;\n}"
}

Response:

{
  "result": {
    "tab_indented_lines": 1,
    "space_indented_lines": 0,
    "mixed_indented_lines": 0,
    "predominant": "tabs"
  }
}

How to call it

MCP

Connect https://computefirst.net/mcp (setup), then call execute with:

{
  "id": "text-indentation-detect",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "input": {
    "text": "function foo() {\n\treturn 1;\n}"
  }
}

HTTP (no key)

curl -X POST https://computefirst.net/v1/tools/text-indentation-detect/versions/1.0.0/execute \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text":"function foo() {\n\treturn 1;\n}"}'

The machine-readable contract is at /v1/tools/text-indentation-detect/versions/1.0.0.

CLI

node cli.mjs run text-indentation-detect 1.0.0 --input input.json --base-url https://computefirst.net

Get the client at /clients/cli/.

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