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s/\t(?=\t)/\t0/g
$ perl -le 'my $x = "1\t2\t\t\t2\t\t5\t\t\t\t4"; print $x; $x =~ s/\t( +?=\t)/\t0/g; print $x' 1 2 2 5 + 4 1 2 0 0 2 0 5 0 0 + 0 4