Enter a TAB after every Xth character of text

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Hi, not necessarily a programmer question but I need to enter a TAB after every 84th character of a text. I'm trying to do it in InDesign but I don’t see an option for this. Is there a good application to do this?

Preferably Mac OS X compatlible but Windows XP is fine too.

Thank you very much!

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