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TheMuffenMann · Feb 15th, 2007, 1:43 AM

well..usually i use hard tabs with a default width of 8, for writing C code, but recently i've adopted a 4 space indent width instead..there's no way in hell im gonna type 4 spaces for every level of indentation, so threw together a quick perl script (i'm actually quite new to perl as far as using it alot goes) so that i can be lazy and use hard tabs when coding, then run the source code through this script and have it indented right. anyways, here it is..it's quite small:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

$^I = ".bak";

while (<>) {
    s/\t/    /g;
    print;
}

Feb 15th, 2007, 1:43 AM	#1
TheMuffenMann Newbie Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	got lazy writing C code...alas! a perl script for formatting well..usually i use hard tabs with a default width of 8, for writing C code, but recently i've adopted a 4 space indent width instead..there's no way in hell im gonna type 4 spaces for every level of indentation, so threw together a quick perl script (i'm actually quite new to perl as far as using it alot goes) so that i can be lazy and use hard tabs when coding, then run the source code through this script and have it indented right. anyways, here it is..it's quite small: (Toggle Plain Text) #!/usr/bin/perl $^I = ".bak"; while (<>) { s/\t/ /g; print; } #!/usr/bin/perl $^I = ".bak"; while (<>) { s/\t/ /g; print; }