Text::Tabs

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



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.

AUTHOR
       David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>



perl v5.8.6                       2001-09-21                     Text::Tabs(3)