Documentation tab/whitespace mismash

[2shortplanks]

The documentation says:

 Alternatively, the may produce simple tab-separated metric output
 that...

Where the code allows any whitespace separated values

/^\s*(metric\s+)?(\S+)\s+(string|int|float|[iIlLns])(\s*)(.*)$/

[postwait]

Yes, be strict on what you expect and flexible on what you accept.