SPUG:command line switches: the DWIMmyness that is Perl

[Michael R. Wolf]

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);


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