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Re: How to replace Tab with spaces not altering postion

by petral (Curate)
on Oct 10, 2002 at 15:11 UTC ( [id://204199]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How to replace Tab with spaces not altering postion

> perldoc -q tabs Found in /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/pod/perlfaq4.pod How do I expand tabs in a string? You can do it yourself: 1 while $string =~ s/\t+/' ' x (length($&) * 8 - length($`) % 8)/e; Or you can just use the Text::Tabs module (part of the standard +perl distribution). use Text::Tabs; @expanded_lines = expand(@lines_with_tabs); >
and this from perlop:
Occasionally, you can't use just a `/g' to get all the changes to occur that you might want. Here are two common cases: # put commas in the right places in an integer 1 while s/(\d)(\d\d\d)(?!\d)/$1,$2/g; # expand tabs to 8-column spacing 1 while s/\t+/' ' x (length($&)*8 - length($`)%8)/e;
And this has been in the perl man page since perl1!
print "\et" x ($tab/8), ' ' x ($tab%8); # tab over


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Re^2: How to replace Tab with spaces not altering postion
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 11, 2002 at 21:45 UTC

    The problem is it's using $` which incurs a huge performance penalty.

    Here's another OWTDI:

    $_ = join "", map { $_ . " " x (8 - length() % 8) } split /\t/, $_, -1; Update: blakem points out that this code is broken. It will pad all parts of the string to a multiple of 8, including the last one. Getting it not to is disappointingly awkward..
    $_ = join "", do { my @bits = split /\t/, $_, -1; (map { $_ . " " x (8 - length() % 8) } @bits[0..$#bits-1]), $bits[ +-1] };
    (Update is untested.)

    Makeshifts last the longest.

      join "", map{ $_ . (/\n/ ? "" : " " x (8 - length() & 7)) } split /\t/ ?

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        $_ = "You\tare\tmaking\ttoo\tmany\tassumptions...";

        Makeshifts last the longest.

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