How can PHP developers ensure consistent tabulation handling across different text editors when using regular expressions for text processing?

PHP developers can ensure consistent tabulation handling across different text editors by using the \s metacharacter in regular expressions to match any whitespace character, including tabs. This allows the regular expression to be editor-agnostic and work consistently regardless of the tab settings in different text editors. 

// Example code snippet using \s metacharacter to match tabs
$text = "This is a    test   string with    tabs";
$pattern = '/\s+/';
$replacement = ' ';
$processed_text = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $text);
echo $processed_text;

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PHP regular expressions text processing tabulation handling text editors

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