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