Text::Tabs(3) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Text::Tabs(3)NAMEText::Tabs-- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and unex-
pand(1)SYNOPSIS
use Text::Tabs;
$tabstop = 4;
@lines_without_tabs = expand(@lines_with_tabs);
@lines_with_tabs = unexpand(@lines_without_tabs);
DESCRIPTIONText::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. Invisi-
ble 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.
LICENSE
Copyright (C) 1996-2002,2005 David Muir Sharnoff. Copyright (C) 2005
Aristotle Pagaltzis This module may be modified, used, copied, and
redistributed at your own risk. Publicly redistributed modified ver-
sions must use a different name.
perl v5.8.8 2006-06-14 Text::Tabs(3)