Import Labels from txt generates unwanted spacing between labels

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Hi,

I’m on a windows laptop, using Audacity 3.4.2. I’m creating a table of lables in a txt format (UTF-8), but I get an unwanted spacing between them when importing to Audacity.

Here is a sample of the long txt labels file:
0.000000 4.000000 1
4.000000 8.000000 2
8.000000 12.000000 3
12.000000 16.000000 4
16.000000 20.000000 5
20.000000 24.000000 6
24.000000 28.000000 7
28.000000 32.000000 8
32.000000 36.000000 9

I need a rnge label for every 4 seconds. As I’m on windows, I export with UTF-8. However, Once I import it into Audacity, I get automatic spacing between the rang labes, such as this:

0.000000 4.000000 1
4.000000 8.000000 2
8.000000 12.000000 3
16.000000 20.000000 4
24.000000 28.000000 5

What can I do to avoid this issue, beside doing it manually, which would be time consuming.

Thanks for the help.

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Exported labels use tab characters to separate the values, not spaces. If you want to replace the tabs with single spaces, most text editors allow you to do “search and replace”.