Text::Tabs(3) Text::Tabs(3)
Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and
unexpand(1)
use Text::Tabs;
$tabstop = 4; @lines_without_tabs = expand(@lines_with_tabs);
@lines_with_tabs = unexpand(@lines_without_tabs);
Text::Tabs does about what the unix utilities expan
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. Invisible
compression with plain ascii!
expand doesn't handle newlines very quickly -- do not feed it an entire
document in one string. Instead feed it an array of lines.
David Muir Sharnoff <[email protected]>
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