Re: How do I replace \t and regarding to the alignment requirement ?

Searching for tab expand and tabs only yields the expand and unexpand programs in ppt. They even do seem to support arbitrary tab stops. I would look at ripping the code out of one of these, as there doesn't seem to be a Text:: module that provides that functionality.

Aaahah. Searching for tabstop finds Text::Format, which claims to have ->expand as a subroutine.

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Re^2: How do I replace \t and regarding to the alignment requirement ? by PerlOnTheWay (Monk) on Apr 19, 2012 at 13:49 UTC
`expand` blindly replaces 1 tab with 8 spaces,so it's not fit for this task...	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: How do I replace \t and regarding to the alignment requirement ? by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 19, 2012 at 13:55 UTC
Weird - at least this version of expand works for me, and the source code suggests that it should work just as it does: `Q:\>copy con test.txt blah a blah ^Z 1 file(s) copied. Q:\>perl -w expand.pl test.txt blah a blah Q:\>perl -w expand.pl test.txt\|perl -ple "s!\t!x!g" blah a blah Q:\>perl -w expand.pl test.txt\|perl -ple "s! !_!g" blah____a_______blah Q:\>type test.txt\|perl -ple "s! !_!g" blah a blah` [download] If `expand` is not working for you, maybe the code I linked to does work for you and you can reuse that?	[reply] [d/l] [select]