package Text::Tabs; require Exporter; @ISA = (Exporter); @EXPORT = qw(expand unexpand $tabstop); use vars qw($VERSION $SUBVERSION $tabstop $debug); $VERSION = 2013.0523; $SUBVERSION = 'old'; use strict; BEGIN { $tabstop = 8; $debug = 0; } sub expand { my @l; my $pad; for ( @_ ) { my $s = ''; for (split(/^/m, $_, -1)) { my $offs = 0; s{\t}{ $pad = $tabstop - (pos() + $offs) % $tabstop; $offs += $pad - 1; " " x $pad; }eg; $s .= $_; } push(@l, $s); } return @l if wantarray; return $l[0]; } sub unexpand { my (@l) = @_; my @e; my $x; my $line; my @lines; my $lastbit; my $ts_as_space = " " x $tabstop; for $x (@l) { @lines = split("\n", $x, -1); for $line (@lines) { $line = expand($line); @e = split(/(.{$tabstop})/,$line,-1); $lastbit = pop(@e); $lastbit = '' unless defined $lastbit; $lastbit = "\t" if $lastbit eq $ts_as_space; for $_ (@e) { if ($debug) { my $x = $_; $x =~ s/\t/^I\t/gs; print "sub on '$x'\n"; } s/ +$/\t/; } $line = join('',@e, $lastbit); } $x = join("\n", @lines); } return @l if wantarray; return $l[0]; } 1; __END__ sub expand { my (@l) = @_; for $_ (@l) { 1 while s/(^|\n)([^\t\n]*)(\t+)/ $1. $2 . (" " x ($tabstop * length($3) - (length($2) % $tabstop))) /sex; } return @l if wantarray; return $l[0]; } =head1 NAME Text::Tabs - expand and unexpand tabs like unix expand(1) and unexpand(1) =head1 SYNOPSIS use Text::Tabs; $tabstop = 4; # default = 8 @lines_without_tabs = expand(@lines_with_tabs); @lines_with_tabs = unexpand(@lines_without_tabs); =head1 DESCRIPTION Text::Tabs does most of what the unix utilities expand(1) and unexpand(1) do. Given a line with tabs in it, C replaces those tabs with the appropriate number of spaces. Given a line with or without tabs in it, C adds tabs when it can save bytes by doing so, like the C command. =head1 EXPORTS The following are exported: =over 4 =item expand =item unexpand =item $tabstop The C<$tabstop> variable controls how many column positions apart each tabstop is. The default is 8. Please note that C doesn't do the right thing and if you want to use C to override C<$tabstop>, you need to use C. =back =head1 EXAMPLE #!perl # unexpand -a use Text::Tabs; while (<>) { print unexpand $_; } Instead of the C command, use: perl -MText::Tabs -n -e 'print expand $_' Instead of the C command, use: perl -MText::Tabs -n -e 'print unexpand $_' =head1 SUBVERSION This module comes in two flavors: one for modern perls (5.10 and above) and one for ancient obsolete perls. The version for modern perls has support for Unicode. The version for old perls does not. You can tell which version you have installed by looking at C<$Text::Tabs::SUBVERSION>: it is C for obsolete perls and C for current perls. This man page is for the version for obsolete perls and so that's probably what you've got. =head1 LICENSE Copyright (C) 1996-2002,2005,2006 David Muir Sharnoff. Copyright (C) 2005 Aristotle Pagaltzis Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Google, Inc. This module may be modified, used, copied, and redistributed at your own risk. Although allowed by the preceding license, please do not publicly redistribute modified versions of this code with the name "Text::Tabs" unless it passes the unmodified Text::Tabs test suite.