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4.25: 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);

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