Hello Monks,
I am trying to find out length of each line of file. I am using length function. Problem is length function is counting tab as a single char and not as 4 chars

input file :

This line has no tab.
    This line has tab at the beginning.

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Script I am using :

  open(my $fh, '<', $inputfile);
  my %line_chars;
  my $line_number = 1;
  while (my $row = <$fh>) {
        if ($line_number > 1) {
              $line_chars{$line_number} =  $line_chars{$line_number - 
+1} + length($row);
        } 
        else {
              $line_chars{$line_number} =  length($row);
        }
        $line_number++;
  }

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Here I need output with all spaces before and after line. specially when line starts with tab

In reply to how to get length of each line of file with spaces by phoenix007

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