Text::Tabs--3perl

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



NAME
       Text::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);

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.  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                       2001-09-22                 Text::Tabs(3perl)