The "unexpand" binary, (eg executable for Window folks), is located in
/usr/bin/ in Fedora 2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64, which I'm running, and I'm
not sure there's a Windows equivalent.
Regards,
LelandJ
On 09/11/2010 12:16 PM, Leland Jackson wrote:
> You might give the below perl script a try. If you named the script
> "spaces_to_tabs.pl", you would call it with the path to the input file
> and path of the file to output as augments. For example:
>
> perl spaces_to_tabs.pl /home/leland/data1.txt /home/leland/data2.txt
>
> #------------------ spaces_to_tabs ------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use Text::Tabs;
> # set number of spaces to tabify
> $tabstop = 5; # default = 8
>
> # pass input file to script
> $infile = $ARGV[0];
>
> # pass output file to script
> $outfile = $ARGV[1];
>
> open (INFILEHANDLE, "< $infile") or die ("Cannot open input file");
> open (OUTFILEHANDLE, "> $outfile ") or die ("cannot open out file");
>
> binmode OUTFILEHANDLE;
>
> while (defined($line =<INFILEHANDLE>))
> {
>
> $line = expand($line);
> print OUTFILEHANDLE unexpand($line);
>
> }
>
> exit;
>
> #-------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Regards,
>
> LelandJ
>
>
>
>
> On 09/10/2010 10:07 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>>> Is this what you are trying to do?
>>> http://www.computing.net/answers/office/transfering-tabs-word-to-notepad/5981.html
>> No. That example shows how to export Word content indented with tabs.
>> I'm asking how to export Word content with tabs based on the indentation
>> property set on each paragraph, eg. there are no tabs in my source
>> documents - just paragraphs of various indentations. I'm sure I can do
>> this via VBA but was hoping for an out-of-the-box solution.
>>
>> Thanks for taking a shot at this for me.
>>
>> Malcolm
>>
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