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Text::Tabs(3)


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.

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