


Text::Tabs(3p)   Perl Programmers Reference Guide  Text::Tabs(3p)


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 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!

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

AUTHOR
       David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>































30/Nov/1997            perl 5.005, patch 03                     1


