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Text::Tabs

NAME

Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and unexpand(1)

SYNOPSIS

  1.   use Text::Tabs;
  3.   $tabstop = 4;  # default = 8
  4.   @lines_without_tabs = expand(@lines_with_tabs);
  5.   @lines_with_tabs = unexpand(@lines_without_tabs);

DESCRIPTION

Text::Tabs does about what the unix utilities expand(1) and unexpand(1) do. Given a line with tabs in it, expand will replace the tabs with the appropriate number of spaces. Given a line with or without tabs in it, unexpand will add tabs when it can save bytes by doing so (just like unexpand -a ). Invisible compression with plain ASCII!

EXAMPLE

  1.   #!perl
  2.   # unexpand -a
  3.   use Text::Tabs;
  5.   while (<>) {
  6.     print unexpand $_;
  7.   }

Instead of the expand comand, use:

  1.   perl -MText::Tabs -n -e 'print expand $_'

Instead of the unexpand -a command, use:

  1.   perl -MText::Tabs -n -e 'print unexpand $_'

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 1996-2002,2005,2006 David Muir Sharnoff. Copyright (C) 2005 Aristotle Pagaltzis This module may be modified, used, copied, and redistributed at your own risk. Publicly redistributed modified versions must use a different name.

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