Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- BUGS
- LICENSE

# 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.

Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand