I don't know if you use perl at all.  My first guess is:

   perl -pe's/^(\*+)(\s+.*)$/("\t"x length$1).$2/e' < TODO.org > TODO.txt

Having tried it on a live file, I don't think the results are very
pleasing  Replacing a single character '*' with a tab creates a
formatting mess with any other text in the file.

Edd

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:39 PM, anhnmncb <anhnmncb@gmail.com> wrote:
> anhnmncb <anhnmncb@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>>
>>> On Jul 26, 2008, at 9:52 AM, anhnmncb wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Hugo Schmitt" <hugows@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> What are the odds that Carsten has plans to export to a format
>>>>> *you* just invented?
>>>> Oh, my pda app projekt can import this format of file, but if all of
>>>> you
>>>> think it's no use, nervermind.
>>>
>>> Hey, why the huff?
>>>
>>> The point is, you have not given us any chance at all to
>>> think it might be of any use!
>>>
>>> - Carsten
>>>
>> Sorry for delay, I can't reach the app website[1] right now, when it
>> can, I will provide the relavent information.
>>
>> [1] http://www.kylom.com/
>
> Sorry, I can't find more useful info, the app just says it can import
> the txt file which has different level of indents. So I think replace
> star(*) with <tab> is enough. Such like this:
>
> Org file              -->  txt file
> --------------------       --------------------
> |* level 1                 |level 1
> |** level 2           -->  |<tab>level 2
> |<tab>- item               |<tab>- item
> |*** level 3               |<tab><tab>level 3
> --------------------       --------------------
>
> I'm not a programmer, so if my request is stupid and easy to achieve by
> any other way, please let me know.
>
>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 3:47 PM, anhnmncb <anhnmncb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> We do not have an exporter that can do this right now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Carsten
>>>>>   Will it come in furture?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jul 24, 2008, at 4:59 PM, anhnmncb wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   I want to export org to plan text, which pattern is:
>>>>>>   --------------------
>>>>>>   |level 1
>>>>>>   |<tab>level 2
>>>>>>   |<tab>- item
>>>>>>   |<tab><tab>level 3
>>>>>>   --------------------
>>>>>>   instead of
>>>>>>   --------------------
>>>>>>   |* level 1
>>>>>>   |** level 2
>>>>>>   |<tab>- item
>>>>>>   |*** level 3
>>>>>>   --------------------
>>>>>>   --
>>>>>>   Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    anhnmncb
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