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How can I automatically tidy up Perl source code?

A cat at my company walked over a keyboard and has left a valid 1000+ line of executable Perl code for me to maintain.

Thanks to Perl's TMTOWTDI philosophy I find myself searching Google to make sense of every line of code she has produced.

To add to my misery the code is not indented and one find frequent occurrence of the two statements on one line, inability figure out whether a loop is outer/inner.

How can I auto-intend this Perl code to sanity? Yes I bet there would be some CPAN module that does that. How about some external tool? Any clues?

Solution

  • Perl::Tidy can do that, and much more. It's usually used through the perltidy executable it installs.