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Text::Tabs

Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (3)
Updated: perl 5.004, patch 04
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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Tabs;

$tabstop = 4;@lines_without_tabs = expand(@lines_with_tabs);@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 withthe appropriate number of spaces. Given a line with or without tabs init, unexpand will add tabs when it can save bytes by doing so. Invisiblecompression with plain ascii!

BUGS

expand doesn't handle newlines very quickly -- do not feed it anentire document in one string. Instead feed it an array of lines.

AUTHOR

David Muir Sharnoff <muirAATTidiom.com>

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