Text::Tabs

Provides subroutines that expand tabs into spaces and compress (“unexpand”) spaces into tabs. The appearance of the text is unchanged. Defines the tabstop variable, which defines the number of spaces equivalent to a tab. Default is 8. Exports the following functions.

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