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

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.

perl v5.14.2							    2010-12-30							 Text::Tabs(3perl)