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

NAME
       Text::Tabs  expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and
       unexpand(1)

SYNOPSIS
         use Text::Tabs;

         $tabstop = 4;  # default = 8
         @lineswithouttabs = expand(@lineswithtabs);
         @lineswithtabs = unexpand(@lineswithouttabs);

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.



perl v5.16.3                      2013-03-04                   Text::Tabs(3pm)