


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;  # 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 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
         #!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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