How do I start a new perl script? Usually it happens when a one-liner grows too big (more than about five lines), or I find that I will want to run it again later. In that case, I copy the one-liner into a text file, and add some line breaks and other cleanups to make it more readable as it grows bigger.
Less often, I already know that I want to make a long re-usable script, in which case I just type something like
#!perl
use warnings; use 5.014;
print "hello, world,";
__END__
into a script, run it, then grow it from there.
In either case, I try to add code for the things it should do, one by one in order. I try to ensure that at each stage when I add a new part, I can run the script and get some sort of feedback diagnostic so I can see that it works. Eventually, I get a complete script I can run or modify.
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