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Text::Tabs

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: 2010-12-01
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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;  # default = 8  @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 (justlike "unexpand -a"). Invisible compression with plain ASCII!

EXAMPLE

  #!perl  # unexpand -a  use Text::Tabs;  while (<>) {    print unexpand $_;  }

Instead of the "expand" comand, use:

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

Instead of the "unexpand -a" command, use:

  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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