SPUG:command line switches: the DWIMmyness that is Perl
Michael R. Wolf
MichaelRunningWolf at att.net
Mon Jan 20 03:07:59 CST 2003
m3047 at inwa.net (Fred Morris) writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I use Perl for all sorts of complicated things, but I confess to never
> having played with the command line switches until tonight. I wanted
> something which would expand tabs into spaces, but I wanted to be able to
> specify the tab stop: sometimes it's 4, sometimes it's 8... anybody else
> find themselves in the same predicament?
>
> So I tried a BEGIN block, and it worked! That's cool!
Did you take a look at this module?
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);
--
Michael R. Wolf
All mammals learn by playing!
MichaelRunningWolf at att.net
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