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8.208. Text::Tabs
Provides subroutines that expand tabs
into spaces and compress
("unexpand") spaces into tabs. The
appearance of the text is unchanged. Defines the
tabstop variable, which defines the number of
spaces equivalent to a tab. Default is 8. Exports
the following functions.
expand |
expand (text)
Given an array of strings (text)
containing tabs, replaces each tab character with the equivalent
number of spaces.
unexpand |
unexpand (text)
Given an array of strings (text) that may
or may not contain tabs, replaces each $tabstop
consecutive spaces with a tab character.
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