Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and unexpand(1)

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- BUGS
- AUTHOR

# 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.

# AUTHOR

David Muir Sharnoff