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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;
         @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.  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.

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
       versions must use a different name.



perl v5.8.8                                      2001-09-21                                  Text::Tabs(3pm)