Text::Tabs 2009.0305

Text::Tabs is a Perl module that 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!

SYNOPSIS

 use Text::Tabs;

 $tabstop = 4; # default = 8
 @lines_without_tabs = expand(@lines_with_tabs);
 @lines_with_tabs = unexpand(@lines_without_tabs);

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 $_'


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· Perl