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.