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- <P>Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix <CODE>expand(1)</CODE> and <CODE>unexpand(1)</CODE></P>
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- <LI>Linux</LI>
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- <H1><A NAME="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</A></H1>
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- use Text::Tabs;</PRE>
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- $tabstop = 4;
- @lines_without_tabs = expand(@lines_with_tabs);
- @lines_with_tabs = unexpand(@lines_without_tabs);</PRE>
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- <P>Text::Tabs does about what the unix utilities <CODE>expand(1)</CODE> and <CODE>unexpand(1)</CODE>
- 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!</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="bugs">BUGS</A></H1>
- <P>expand doesn't handle newlines very quickly -- do not feed it an
- entire document in one string. Instead feed it an array of lines.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="author">AUTHOR</A></H1>
- <P>David Muir Sharnoff <<A HREF="mailto:muir@idiom.com">muir@idiom.com</A>></P>
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