Joel de Guzman <joel <at> boost-consulting.com> writes:
> >>> We need a program options flag for this which defaults
> >>> to 4 spaces. Thoughts?
[snip]
> I took a peek at the code, and, alas... it's innevitable, we need
> to handle tabs. Take a peek at list_format_action, for example.
> The quickbook syntax relies on block layout (ala python) in
> certain places such as list handling. We can issue a warning,
> sure, but we'll still have to correctly handle them when they
> are present, otherwise, block formatting will go awry.
I found a tabs to spaces regex algorithm in The Perl Cookbook.
I think Boost regex can do this too.
while ($string =~ s/\t+/' ' x (length($&) * 8 - length($`) % 8)/e {
# spin in empty loop until substitution fails
}
Obviously switch 8 for tabwidth,
Thomas
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