Text_Tabs
Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs
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use Text::Tabs;
#$tabstop = 8; # Defaults
print expand("Hello\tworld");
print unexpand("Hello, world");
$tabstop = 4;
print join("\n",expand(split(/\n/,
"Hello\tworld,\nit's a nice day.\n"
)));
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This module expands and unexpands tabs into spaces, as per the unix expand
and unexpand programs. Either function should be passed an array of strings
(newlines may not be included, and should be used to split an incoming
string into separate elements.) which will be processed and returned.
David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>