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perlman:Text::Tabs

by root (Monk)
on Dec 23, 1999 at 00:53 UTC ( [id://1256]=perlfunc: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Text::Tabs

See the current Perl documentation for Text::Tabs.

Here is our local, out-dated (pre-5.6) version:


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



use Text::Tabs;

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



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. Invisible 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.


AUTHOR

David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>


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